| MOUNTD(8) | System Manager's Manual | MOUNTD(8) |
mountd —
mountd |
[-dN] [-P
policy] [-p
port] [exportsfile] |
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, RFC 1094,
Appendix A and NFS: Network File System Version 3 Protocol
Specification, Appendix I.
Options and operands available for
mountd:
-dmountd will not detach from
the controlling terminal and will print debugging messages to stderr.-N-P
policymountd logs an error message and terminates
itself.-p
portmountd to bind to the given port. If this
option is not given, mountd may bind to every
anonymous port (in the range 600-1023) which causes trouble when trying to
use NFS through a firewall.When mountd is started, it loads the
export host addresses and options into the kernel using the
nfssvc(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.
After receiving SIGTERM, mountd sends a
broadcast request to remove the mount list from all the clients. This can
take a long time, since the broadcast request waits for each client to
respond.
mountdmountd utility first appeared in
4.4BSD.
| November 2, 2011 | NetBSD 9.4 |