1.\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1991 The Regents of the University of California. 2.\" All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" %sccs.include.redist.man% 5.\" 6.\" @(#)mountd.8 5.7 (Berkeley) 11/11/91 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 n 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. 31.Pp 32Options and operands available for 33.Nm mountd : 34.Bl -tag -width Ds 35.It Fl n 36The 37.Fl n 38option allows non-root mount requests to be served. 39This should only be specified if there are clients such as PC's, 40that require it. 41.It Ar exportsfile 42The 43.Ar exportsfile 44argument specifies an alternate location 45for the exports file. 46.El 47.Pp 48When mountd is started, 49it loads the export host addresses and options into the kernel 50using the mount(2) system call. 51After changing the exports file, 52a hangup signal should be sent to the mountd daemon 53to get it to reload the export information. 54After sending the SIGHUP 55(kill -HUP `cat /var/run/mountd.pid`), 56check the syslog output to see if mountd logged any parsing 57errors in the exports file. 58.Sh FILES 59.Bl -tag -width /var/run/mountd.pid -compact 60.It Pa /etc/exports 61the list of exported filesystems 62.It Pa /var/run/mountd.pid 63the pid of the currently running mountd 64.El 65.Sh SEE ALSO 66.Xr nfsstat 1 , 67.Xr exports 5 , 68.Xr nfsd 8 , 69.Xr portmap 8 , 70.Xr showmount 8 71.Sh HISTORY 72The 73.Nm 74command 75.Ud 76