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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 8.4 (Berkeley) 4/28/95 33.\" $FreeBSD: src/sbin/mountd/mountd.8,v 1.16.2.2 2000/12/08 14:04:02 ru Exp $ 34.\" $DragonFly: src/sbin/mountd/mountd.8,v 1.2 2003/06/17 04:27:34 dillon Exp $ 35.\" 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