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31.Dd May 2, 2006
32.Dt MOUNTD 8
33.Os
34.Sh NAME
35.Nm mountd
36.Nd service remote
37.Tn NFS
38mount requests
39.Sh SYNOPSIS
40.Nm
41.Op Fl 2dlnr
42.Op Fl p Ar port
43.Op Ar exportsfile
44.Sh DESCRIPTION
45The
46.Nm
47utility is the server for
48.Tn NFS
49mount requests from other client machines.
50It listens for service requests at the port indicated in the
51.Tn NFS
52server specification; see
53.%T "Network File System Protocol Specification" ,
54RFC1094, Appendix A and
55.%T "NFS: Network File System Version 3 Protocol Specification" ,
56Appendix I.
57.Pp
58The following options are available:
59.Bl -tag -width indent
60.It Fl 2
61Allow the administrator to force clients to use only the
62version 2
63.Tn NFS
64protocol to mount file systems from this server.
65.It Fl d
66Output debugging information.
67.Nm
68will not detach from the controlling terminal and will print
69debugging messages to stderr.
70.It Fl l
71Cause all succeeded
72.Nm
73requests to be logged.
74.It Fl n
75Allow non-root mount requests to be served.
76This should only be specified if there are clients such as PC's,
77that require it.
78It will automatically clear the vfs.nfsrv.nfs_privport sysctl flag, which
79controls if the kernel will accept NFS requests from reserved ports only.
80.It Fl p Ar port
81Force
82.Nm
83to bind to the specified port, for both
84.Dv AF_INET
85and
86.Dv AF_INET6
87address families.
88This is typically done to ensure that the port which
89.Nm
90binds to is a known quantity which can be used in firewall rulesets.
91If
92.Nm
93cannot bind to this port, an appropriate error will be recorded in
94the system log, and the daemon will then exit.
95.It Fl r
96Allow mount RPCs requests for regular files to be served.
97Although this seems to violate the mount protocol specification,
98some diskless workstations do mount requests for
99their swapfiles and expect them to be regular files.
100Since a regular file cannot be specified in
101.Pa /etc/exports ,
102the entire file system in which the swapfiles resides
103will have to be exported with the
104.Fl alldirs
105flag.
106.It Ar exportsfile
107Specify an alternate location
108for the exports file.
109.El
110.Pp
111When
112.Nm
113is started,
114it loads the export host addresses and options into the kernel
115using the
116.Xr mount 2
117system call.
118After changing the exports file,
119a hangup signal should be sent to the
120.Nm
121daemon
122to get it to reload the export information.
123After sending the SIGHUP
124(kill \-s HUP `cat /var/run/mountd.pid`),
125check the syslog output to see if
126.Nm
127logged any parsing
128errors in the exports file.
129.Pp
130If
131.Nm
132detects that the running kernel does not include
133.Tn NFS
134support, it will attempt to load a loadable kernel module containing
135.Tn NFS
136code, using
137.Xr kldload 2 .
138If this fails, or no
139.Tn NFS
140KLD was available,
141.Nm
142exits with an error.
143.Sh FILES
144.Bl -tag -width /var/run/mountd.pid -compact
145.It Pa /etc/exports
146the list of exported file systems
147.It Pa /var/run/mountd.pid
148the pid of the currently running mountd
149.It Pa /var/db/mountdtab
150the current list of remote mounted file systems
151.El
152.Sh SEE ALSO
153.Xr nfsstat 1 ,
154.Xr kldload 2 ,
155.Xr exports 5 ,
156.Xr nfsd 8 ,
157.Xr rpcbind 8 ,
158.Xr showmount 8
159.Sh HISTORY
160The
161.Nm
162utility first appeared in
163.Bx 4.4 .
164