xref: /freebsd/usr.sbin/mountd/mountd.8 (revision afe61c15161c324a7af299a9b8457aba5afc92db)
1.\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1991, 1993
2.\"	The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
3.\"
4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
6.\" are met:
7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
8.\"    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
9.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
10.\"    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
11.\"    documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
12.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software
13.\"    must display the following acknowledgement:
14.\"	This product includes software developed by the University of
15.\"	California, Berkeley and its contributors.
16.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors
17.\"    may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
18.\"    without specific prior written permission.
19.\"
20.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND
21.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
22.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
23.\" ARE DISCLAIMED.  IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
24.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
25.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS
26.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION)
27.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT
28.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY
29.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
30.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
31.\"
32.\"     @(#)mountd.8	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/9/93
33.\"
34.Dd June 9, 1993
35.Dt MOUNTD 8
36.Os
37.Sh NAME
38.Nm mountd
39.Nd service remote
40.Tn NFS
41mount requests
42.Sh SYNOPSIS
43.Nm /sbin/mountd
44.Op Fl n
45.Op Ar exportsfile
46.Sh DESCRIPTION
47.Xr Mountd
48is the server for
49.Tn NFS
50mount requests from other client machines.
51.Xr Mountd
52listens for service requests at the port indicated in the
53.Tn NFS
54server specification; see
55.%T "Network File System Protocol Specification" ,
56RFC1094.
57.Pp
58Options and operands available for
59.Nm mountd :
60.Bl -tag -width Ds
61.It Fl n
62The
63.Fl n
64option allows non-root mount requests to be served.
65This should only be specified if there are clients such as PC's,
66that require it.
67.It Ar exportsfile
68The
69.Ar exportsfile
70argument specifies an alternate location
71for the exports file.
72.El
73.Pp
74When mountd is started,
75it loads the export host addresses and options into the kernel
76using the mount(2) system call.
77After changing the exports file,
78a hangup signal should be sent to the mountd daemon
79to get it to reload the export information.
80After sending the SIGHUP
81(kill -HUP `cat /var/run/mountd.pid`),
82check the syslog output to see if mountd logged any parsing
83errors in the exports file.
84.Sh FILES
85.Bl -tag -width /var/run/mountd.pid -compact
86.It Pa /etc/exports
87the list of exported filesystems
88.It Pa /var/run/mountd.pid
89the pid of the currently running mountd
90.El
91.Sh SEE ALSO
92.Xr nfsstat 1 ,
93.Xr exports 5 ,
94.Xr nfsd 8 ,
95.Xr portmap 8 ,
96.Xr showmount 8
97.Sh HISTORY
98The
99.Nm mountd
100utility first appeared in 4.4BSD.
101