1.\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1991, 1993 2.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" %sccs.include.redist.man% 5.\" 6.\" @(#)mountd.8 8.4 (Berkeley) 04/28/95 7.\" 8.Dd 9.Dt MOUNTD 8 10.Os 11.Sh NAME 12.Nm mountd 13.Nd service remote 14.Tn NFS 15mount requests 16.Sh SYNOPSIS 17.Nm /sbin/mountd 18.Op Fl nr 19.Op Ar exportsfile 20.Sh DESCRIPTION 21.Xr Mountd 22is the server for 23.Tn NFS 24mount requests from other client machines. 25.Xr Mountd 26listens for service requests at the port indicated in the 27.Tn NFS 28server specification; see 29.%T "Network File System Protocol Specification" , 30RFC1094, Appendix A and 31.%T "NFS: Network File System Version 3 Protocol Specification" , 32Appendix I. 33.Pp 34Options and operands available for 35.Nm mountd : 36.Bl -tag -width Ds 37.It Fl n 38The 39.Fl n 40option allows non-root mount requests to be served. 41This should only be specified if there are clients such as PC's, 42that require it. 43.It Fl r 44The 45.Fl r 46option allows mount RPCs requests for regular files to be served. 47Although this seems to violate the mount protocol specification, 48some diskless workstations do mount requests for 49their swapfiles and expect them to be regular files. 50Since a regular file cannot be specified in 51.Pa /etc/exports , 52the entire file system in which the swapfiles resides 53will have to be exported with the 54.Fl alldirs 55flag. 56.It Ar exportsfile 57The 58.Ar exportsfile 59argument specifies an alternate location 60for the exports file. 61.El 62.Pp 63When mountd is started, 64it loads the export host addresses and options into the kernel 65using the mount(2) system call. 66After changing the exports file, 67a hangup signal should be sent to the mountd daemon 68to get it to reload the export information. 69After sending the SIGHUP 70(kill \-s HUP `cat /var/run/mountd.pid`), 71check the syslog output to see if mountd logged any parsing 72errors in the exports file. 73.Sh FILES 74.Bl -tag -width /var/run/mountd.pid -compact 75.It Pa /etc/exports 76the list of exported filesystems 77.It Pa /var/run/mountd.pid 78the pid of the currently running mountd 79.El 80.Sh SEE ALSO 81.Xr nfsstat 1 , 82.Xr exports 5 , 83.Xr nfsd 8 , 84.Xr portmap 8 , 85.Xr showmount 8 86.Sh HISTORY 87The 88.Nm mountd 89utility first appeared in 4.4BSD. 90