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31.Dd October 20, 2007
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 h Ar bindip
43.Op Fl p Ar port
44.Op Ar exportsfile ...
45.Sh DESCRIPTION
46The
47.Nm
48utility is the server for
49.Tn NFS
50mount requests from other client machines.
51It listens for service requests at the port indicated in the
52.Tn NFS
53server specification; see
54.%T "Network File System Protocol Specification" ,
55RFC1094, Appendix A and
56.%T "NFS: Network File System Version 3 Protocol Specification" ,
57Appendix I.
58.Pp
59The following options are available:
60.Bl -tag -width indent
61.It Fl 2
62Allow the administrator to force clients to use only the
63version 2
64.Tn NFS
65protocol to mount file systems from this server.
66.It Fl d
67Output debugging information.
68.Nm
69will not detach from the controlling terminal and will print
70debugging messages to stderr.
71.It Fl h Ar bindip
72Specify specific IP addresses to bind to for TCP and UDP requests.
73This option may be specified multiple times.
74If no
75.Fl h
76option is specified,
77.Nm
78will bind to
79.Dv INADDR_ANY .
80Note that when specifying IP addresses with
81.Fl h ,
82.Nm
83will automatically add
84.Li 127.0.0.1
85and if IPv6 is enabled,
86.Li ::1
87to the list.
88.It Fl l
89Cause all succeeded
90.Nm
91requests to be logged.
92.It Fl n
93Allow non-root mount requests to be served.
94This should only be specified if there are clients such as PC's,
95that require it.
96It will automatically clear the vfs.nfsrv.nfs_privport sysctl flag, which
97controls if the kernel will accept NFS requests from reserved ports only.
98.It Fl p Ar port
99Force
100.Nm
101to bind to the specified port, for both
102.Dv AF_INET
103and
104.Dv AF_INET6
105address families.
106This is typically done to ensure that the port which
107.Nm
108binds to is a known quantity which can be used in firewall rulesets.
109If
110.Nm
111cannot bind to this port, an appropriate error will be recorded in
112the system log, and the daemon will then exit.
113.It Fl r
114Allow mount RPCs requests for regular files to be served.
115Although this seems to violate the mount protocol specification,
116some diskless workstations do mount requests for
117their swapfiles and expect them to be regular files.
118Since a regular file cannot be specified in
119.Pa /etc/exports ,
120the entire file system in which the swapfiles resides
121will have to be exported with the
122.Fl alldirs
123flag.
124.It Ar exportsfile
125Specify an alternate location
126for the exports file.
127More than one exports file can be specified.
128.El
129.Pp
130When
131.Nm
132is started,
133it loads the export host addresses and options into the kernel
134using the
135.Xr mount 2
136system call.
137After changing the exports file,
138a hangup signal should be sent to the
139.Nm
140daemon
141to get it to reload the export information.
142After sending the SIGHUP
143(kill \-s HUP `cat /var/run/mountd.pid`),
144check the syslog output to see if
145.Nm
146logged any parsing
147errors in the exports file.
148.Pp
149If
150.Nm
151detects that the running kernel does not include
152.Tn NFS
153support, it will attempt to load a loadable kernel module containing
154.Tn NFS
155code, using
156.Xr kldload 2 .
157If this fails, or no
158.Tn NFS
159KLD was available,
160.Nm
161exits with an error.
162.Sh FILES
163.Bl -tag -width /var/run/mountd.pid -compact
164.It Pa /etc/exports
165the list of exported file systems
166.It Pa /var/run/mountd.pid
167the pid of the currently running mountd
168.It Pa /var/db/mountdtab
169the current list of remote mounted file systems
170.El
171.Sh SEE ALSO
172.Xr nfsstat 1 ,
173.Xr kldload 2 ,
174.Xr exports 5 ,
175.Xr nfsd 8 ,
176.Xr rpcbind 8 ,
177.Xr showmount 8
178.Sh HISTORY
179The
180.Nm
181utility first appeared in
182.Bx 4.4 .
183