1.\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1991 The Regents of the University of California. 2.\" All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 9.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 11.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 12.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 13.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 14.\" This product includes software developed by the University of 15.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. 16.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 17.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 18.\" without specific prior written permission. 19.\" 20.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 21.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 22.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 23.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. 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 5.6 (Berkeley) 3/16/91 33.\" 34.Dd March 16, 1991 35.Dt MOUNTD 8 36.Os 37.Sh NAME 38.Nm mountd 39.Nd service remote 40.Tn NFS 41mount requests 42.Sh SYNOPSIS 43.Nm /sbin/mountd 44.Op Fl n 45.Op Ar exportsfile 46.Sh DESCRIPTION 47.Xr Mountd 48is the server for 49.Tn NFS 50mount requests from other client machines. 51.Xr Mountd 52listens for service requests at the port indicated in the 53.Tn NFS 54server specification; see 55.%T "Network File System Protocol Specification" , 56RFC1094. 57.Pp 58Options and operands available for 59.Nm mountd : 60.Bl -tag -width Ds 61.It Fl n 62The 63.Fl n 64option allows non-root mount requests to be served. 65This should only be specified if there are clients such as PC's, 66that require it. 67.It Ar exsportfile 68The 69.Ar exportsfile 70argument specifies an alternate location 71for the exports file. 72.El 73.Pp 74Sending a 75.Dv SIGHUP 76signal to 77.Xr mountd 78will cause it to reread its exports file. 79.Sh FILES 80.Bl -tag -width /etc/exports -compact 81.It Pa /etc/exports 82.El 83.Sh SEE ALSO 84.Xr nfsstat 1 , 85.Xr exports 5 , 86.Xr nfsd 8 , 87.Xr portmap 8 , 88.Xr showmount 8 89.Sh HISTORY 90The 91.Nm 92command 93.Ud 94