NAME
mountd
—
service remote NFS mount
requests
SYNOPSIS
mountd |
[-d ] [exportsfile] |
DESCRIPTION
mountd
is the server for NFS mount
requests from other client machines. mountd
listens
for service requests at the port indicated in the NFS server specification;
see Network File System Protocol Specification, RFC
1094, Appendix A and NFS: Network File System Version 3
Protocol Specification, Appendix I.
The options are as follows:
-d
- Enable debugging mode.
mountd
will not detach from the controlling terminal and will print debugging messages to stderr. - exportsfile
- The exportsfile argument specifies an alternate location for the exports file.
When mountd
is started, it loads the
export host addresses and options into the kernel using the
mount(2) system call. After changing the exports file, a hangup
signal should be sent to the mountd
daemon to get it
to reload the export information. After sending the
SIGHUP
(kill -HUP `cat /var/run/mountd.pid`), check
the syslog output to see if mountd
logged any
parsing errors in the exports file.
FILES
- /etc/exports
- list of exported filesystems
- /var/run/mountd.pid
- PID of the currently running
mountd
SEE ALSO
HISTORY
The mountd
utility first appeared in
4.4BSD.
The -n
flag historically allowed clients
to use non-reserved ports when communicating with
mountd
. In OpenBSD, a
reserved port is always used.