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

NAME

     mountd -- service remote NFS mount requests

SYNOPSIS

     /sbin/mountd [-nr] [exportsfile]

DESCRIPTION

     Mountd is the server for NFS mount requests from other client machines.  Mountd listens for service requests at the port indicated in the NFS
     server specification; see Network File System Protocol Specification, RFC1094, Appendix A and NFS: Network File System Version 3 Protocol
     Specification, Appendix I.

     Options and operands available for mountd:

     -n      The -n option allows non-root mount requests to be served.  This should only be specified if there are clients such as PC's, that
	     require it.

     -r      The -r option allows mount RPCs requests for regular files to be served.  Although this seems to violate the mount protocol specifi-
	     cation, some diskless workstations do mount requests for their swapfiles and expect them to be regular files.  Since a regular file
	     cannot be specified in /etc/exports, the entire file system in which the swapfiles resides will have to be exported with the -alldirs
	     flag.

     exportsfile
	     The exportsfile argument specifies an alternate location for the exports file.

     When mountd is started, it loads the export host addresses and options into the kernel using the mount(2) system call.  After changing the
     exports file, a hangup signal should be sent to the mountd daemon to get it to reload the export information.  After sending the SIGHUP (kill
     -s HUP `cat /var/run/mountd.pid`), check the syslog output to see if mountd logged any parsing errors in the exports file.

FILES

     /etc/exports	  the list of exported filesystems
     /var/run/mountd.pid  the pid of the currently running mountd

SEE ALSO

     nfsstat(1), exports(5), nfsd(8), portmap(8), showmount(8)

HISTORY

     The mountd utility first appeared in 4.4BSD.

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								  April 28, 1995							       BSD