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36.Dd April 28, 1995
37.Dt MOUNTD 8
38.Os
39.Sh NAME
40.Nm mountd
41.Nd service remote
42.Tn NFS
43mount requests
44.Sh SYNOPSIS
45.Nm
46.Op Fl 2dlnr
47.Op Ar exportsfile
48.Sh DESCRIPTION
49.Nm Mountd
50is the server for
51.Tn NFS
52mount requests from other client machines.
53It listens for service requests at the port indicated in the
54.Tn NFS
55server specification; see
56.%T "Network File System Protocol Specification" ,
57RFC1094, Appendix A and
58.%T "NFS: Network File System Version 3 Protocol Specification" ,
59Appendix I.
60.Pp
61The following options are available:
62.Bl -tag -width indent
63.It Fl 2
64Allow the administrator to force clients to use only the
65version 2
66.Tn NFS
67protocol to mount filesystems from this server.
68.It Fl d
69Output debugging information.
70.It Fl l
71Cause all succeeded
72.Nm
73requests to be logged.
74.It Fl n
75Allow non-root mount requests to be served.
76This should only be specified if there are clients such as PC's,
77that require it.
78It will automatically clear the vfs.nfs.nfs_privport sysctl flag, which
79controls if the kernel will accept NFS requests from reserved ports only.
80.It Fl r
81Allow mount RPCs requests for regular files to be served.
82Although this seems to violate the mount protocol specification,
83some diskless workstations do mount requests for
84their swapfiles and expect them to be regular files.
85Since a regular file cannot be specified in
86.Pa /etc/exports ,
87the entire file system in which the swapfiles resides
88will have to be exported with the
89.Fl alldirs
90flag.
91.It Ar exportsfile
92Specify an alternate location
93for the exports file.
94.El
95.Pp
96When
97.Nm
98is started,
99it loads the export host addresses and options into the kernel
100using the
101.Xr mount 2
102system call.
103After changing the exports file,
104a hangup signal should be sent to the
105.Nm
106daemon
107to get it to reload the export information.
108After sending the SIGHUP
109(kill \-s HUP `cat /var/run/mountd.pid`),
110check the syslog output to see if
111.Nm
112logged any parsing
113errors in the exports file.
114.Pp
115If
116.Nm
117detects that the running kernel does not include
118.Tn NFS
119support, it will attempt to load a loadable kernel module containing
120.Tn NFS
121code, using
122.Xr kldload 8
123by way of
124.Xr vfsload 3 .
125If this fails, or no
126.Tn NFS
127KLD was available,
128.Nm
129exits with an error.
130.Sh FILES
131.Bl -tag -width /var/run/mountd.pid -compact
132.It Pa /etc/exports
133the list of exported filesystems
134.It Pa /var/run/mountd.pid
135the pid of the currently running mountd
136.It Pa /var/db/mountdtab
137the current list of remote mounted filesystems
138.El
139.Sh SEE ALSO
140.Xr nfsstat 1 ,
141.Xr exports 5 ,
142.Xr kldload 8 ,
143.Xr nfsd 8 ,
144.Xr portmap 8 ,
145.Xr showmount 8
146.Sh HISTORY
147The
148.Nm
149utility first appeared in
150.Bx 4.4 .
151