MOUNTD(8)						    BSD System Manager's Manual 						 MOUNTD(8)

NAME

     mountd -- service remote NFS mount requests

SYNOPSIS

     Obsolete.	See nfsd(8).

DESCRIPTION

     The mountd daemon was formerly the server for NFS mount requests from NFS clients.  This functionality has been moved into the NFS server
     daemon nfsd(8).

     Please refer to nfsd(8) for NFS server documenation.

     The following is a list of former mountd options that are now available as nfsd(8) options:

	   mountd option    nfsd option        Description
	   -n		    -N		       allow non-root mounts
	   -r		    -R		       allow regular file mounts
	   exportsfile	    -F exportsfile     alternate exports file

     However, such configuration options are normally specified via nfs.conf(5).

     When the NFS server is started, it loads the export host addresses and options into the kernel using the nfssvc(2) system call.  After chang-
     ing the list of exports (either directly or indirectly via a change in netgroup membership), the administrator should send a hangup signal to
     the nfsd daemon to get it to reload the export information:

	   kill -s HUP `cat /var/run/nfsd.pid`

     For backwards compatibility, the following should also work:

	   kill -s HUP `cat /var/run/mountd.pid`

     Any errors encountered while processing the export entries will be logged via syslog(3).

FILES

     /etc/exports	  the list of exported filesystems
     /var/run/mountd.pid  the pid of the currently running mountd
     /var/run/mountdtab   the current list of outstanding mounts served
     /var/run/mountdexptab
			  information about exported file systems and directories (UUIDs, handles, ...)

SEE ALSO

     nfsd(8), exports(5), nfs.conf(5), nfsstat(1), portmap(8), showmount(8)

HISTORY

     The mountd utility first appeared in 4.4BSD.  It's functionality was merged into nfsd(8) in Darwin 9.

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								 November 10, 2006							       BSD