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35.Dd April 28, 1995
36.Dt MOUNTD 8
37.Os
38.Sh NAME
39.Nm mountd
40.Nd service remote
41.Tn NFS
42mount requests
43.Sh SYNOPSIS
44.Nm mountd
45.Op Fl 2dlnr
46.Op Ar exportsfile
47.Sh DESCRIPTION
48.Nm Mountd
49is the server for
50.Tn NFS
51mount requests from other client machines.
52It listens for service requests at the port indicated in the
53.Tn NFS
54server specification; see
55.%T "Network File System Protocol Specification" ,
56RFC1094, Appendix A and
57.%T "NFS: Network File System Version 3 Protocol Specification" ,
58Appendix I.
59.Pp
60The following options are available:
61.Bl -tag -width indent
62.It Fl 2
63Allow the administrator to force clients to use only the
64version 2
65.Tn NFS
66protocol to mount filesystems from this server.
67.It Fl d
68Output debugging information.
69.It Fl l
70Cause all succeeded
71.Nm
72requests to be logged.
73.It Fl n
74Allow non-root mount requests to be served.
75This should only be specified if there are clients such as PC's,
76that require it.
77It will automatically clear the vfs.nfs.nfs_privport sysctl flag, which
78controls if the kernel will accept NFS requests from reserved ports only.
79.It Fl r
80Allow mount RPCs requests for regular files to be served.
81Although this seems to violate the mount protocol specification,
82some diskless workstations do mount requests for
83their swapfiles and expect them to be regular files.
84Since a regular file cannot be specified in
85.Pa /etc/exports ,
86the entire file system in which the swapfiles resides
87will have to be exported with the
88.Fl alldirs
89flag.
90.It Ar exportsfile
91Specify an alternate location
92for the exports file.
93.El
94.Pp
95When
96.Nm
97is started,
98it loads the export host addresses and options into the kernel
99using the mount(2) system call.
100After changing the exports file,
101a hangup signal should be sent to the
102.Nm
103daemon
104to get it to reload the export information.
105After sending the SIGHUP
106(kill \-s HUP `cat /var/run/mountd.pid`),
107check the syslog output to see if
108.Nm
109logged any parsing
110errors in the exports file.
111.Pp
112If
113.Nm
114detects that the running kernel does not include
115.Tn NFS
116support, it will attempt to load a loadable kernel module containing
117.Tn NFS
118code, using
119.Xr kldload 8
120by way of
121.Xr vfsload 3 .
122If this fails, or no
123.Tn NFS
124KLD was available,
125.Nm
126exits with an error.
127.Sh FILES
128.Bl -tag -width /var/run/mountd.pid -compact
129.It Pa /etc/exports
130the list of exported filesystems
131.It Pa /var/run/mountd.pid
132the pid of the currently running mountd
133.It Pa /var/db/mountdtab
134the current list of remote mounted filesystems
135.El
136.Sh SEE ALSO
137.Xr nfsstat 1 ,
138.Xr exports 5 ,
139.Xr kldload 8 ,
140.Xr nfsd 8 ,
141.Xr portmap 8 ,
142.Xr showmount 8
143.Sh HISTORY
144The
145.Nm
146utility first appeared in
147.Bx 4.4 .
148