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32.Dd April 28, 1995
33.Dt MOUNTD 8
34.Os
35.Sh NAME
36.Nm mountd
37.Nd service remote
38.Tn NFS
39mount requests
40.Sh SYNOPSIS
41.Nm
42.Op Fl 2dlnr
43.Op Ar exportsfile
44.Sh DESCRIPTION
45.Nm Mountd
46is the server for
47.Tn NFS
48mount requests from other client machines.
49It listens for service requests at the port indicated in the
50.Tn NFS
51server specification; see
52.%T "Network File System Protocol Specification" ,
53RFC 1094, Appendix A and
54.%T "NFS: Network File System Version 3 Protocol Specification" ,
55Appendix I.
56.Pp
57The following options are available:
58.Bl -tag -width indent
59.It Fl 2
60Allow the administrator to force clients to use only the
61version 2
62.Tn NFS
63protocol to mount filesystems from this server.
64.It Fl d
65Output debugging information.
66.It Fl l
67Cause all succeeded
68.Nm
69requests to be logged.
70.It Fl n
71Allow non-root mount requests to be served.
72This should only be specified if there are clients such as PC's,
73that require it.
74It will automatically clear the
75.Va vfs.nfs.nfs_privport
76sysctl flag, which
77controls if the kernel will accept NFS requests from reserved ports only.
78.It Fl r
79Allow mount RPCs requests for regular files to be served.
80Although this seems to violate the mount protocol specification,
81some diskless workstations do mount requests for
82their swapfiles and expect them to be regular files.
83Since a regular file cannot be specified in
84.Pa /etc/exports ,
85the entire file system in which the swapfiles resides
86will have to be exported with the
87.Fl alldirs
88flag.
89.It Ar exportsfile
90Specify an alternate location
91for the exports file.
92.El
93.Pp
94When
95.Nm
96is started,
97it loads the export host addresses and options into the kernel
98using the
99.Xr mount 2
100system call.
101After changing the exports file,
102a hangup signal should be sent to the
103.Nm
104daemon
105to get it to reload the export information.
106After sending the
107.Dv SIGHUP
108(kill \-s HUP `cat /var/run/mountd.pid`),
109check the syslog output to see if
110.Nm
111logged any parsing
112errors in the exports file.
113.Pp
114If
115.Nm
116detects that the running kernel does not include
117.Tn NFS
118support, it will attempt to load a loadable kernel module containing
119.Tn NFS
120code, using
121.Xr kldload 8
122by way of
123.Xr vfsload 3 .
124If this fails, or no
125.Tn NFS
126KLD was available,
127.Nm
128exits with an error.
129.Sh FILES
130.Bl -tag -width /var/run/mountd.pid -compact
131.It Pa /etc/exports
132the list of exported filesystems
133.It Pa /var/run/mountd.pid
134the pid of the currently running mountd
135.It Pa /var/db/mountdtab
136the current list of remote mounted filesystems
137.El
138.Sh SEE ALSO
139.Xr nfsstat 1 ,
140.Xr exports 5 ,
141.Xr kldload 8 ,
142.Xr nfsd 8 ,
143.Xr rpcbind 8 ,
144.Xr showmount 8
145.Sh HISTORY
146The
147.Nm
148utility first appeared in
149.Bx 4.4 .
150