1.\" $NetBSD: mountd.8,v 1.22 2000/07/03 10:06:26 enami Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1991, 1993 4.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 5.\" 6.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 7.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 8.\" are met: 9.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 11.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 12.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 13.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 14.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 15.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 16.\" This product includes software developed by the University of 17.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. 18.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 19.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 20.\" without specific prior written permission. 21.\" 22.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 23.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 24.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 25.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 26.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 27.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 28.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 29.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 30.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 31.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 32.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 33.\" 34.\" @(#)mountd.8 8.4 (Berkeley) 4/28/95 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 dn 47.Op Ar exportsfile 48.Sh DESCRIPTION 49.Nm 50is the server for 51.Tn NFS 52mount requests from other client machines. 53.Nm 54listens for service requests at the port indicated in the 55.Tn NFS 56server specification; see 57.%T "Network File System Protocol Specification" , 58RFC1094, Appendix A and 59.%T "NFS: Network File System Version 3 Protocol Specification" , 60Appendix I. 61.Pp 62Options and operands available for 63.Nm mountd : 64.Bl -tag -width Ds 65.It Fl d 66Enable debugging mode. 67.Nm 68will not detach from the controlling terminal and will print 69debugging messages to stderr. 70.It Fl n 71This flag used to indicate that clients were required to make requests 72from reserved ports, but it is now no longer functional. It 73is only provided for backwards compatibility. Requests 74are checked for reserved ports on a per-export basis, see 75.Xr exports 5 . 76.It Ar exportsfile 77The 78.Ar exportsfile 79argument specifies an alternative location 80for the exports file. 81.El 82.Pp 83When 84.Nm 85is started, 86it loads the export host addresses and options into the kernel 87using the 88.Xr mount 2 89system call. 90After changing the exports file, 91a hangup signal should be sent to the 92.Nm 93daemon to get it to reload the export information. 94After sending the SIGHUP 95(kill \-s HUP `cat /var/run/mountd.pid`), 96check the syslog output to see if 97.Nm 98logged any parsing errors in the exports file. 99.Pp 100After receiving SIGTERM, 101.Nm 102sends a broadcast request to remove the mount list from all the clients. 103This can take a long time, since the broadcast request waits for each 104client to respond. 105.Sh FILES 106.Bl -tag -width /var/run/mountd.pid -compact 107.It Pa /etc/exports 108the list of exported filesystems 109.It Pa /var/run/mountd.pid 110the pid of the currently running 111.Nm 112.El 113.Sh SEE ALSO 114.Xr nfsstat 1 , 115.Xr exports 5 , 116.Xr nfsd 8 , 117.Xr rpcbind 8 , 118.Xr showmount 8 119.Sh HISTORY 120The 121.Nm 122utility first appeared in 123.Bx 4.4 . 124