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 5.6 (Berkeley) 03/16/91 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 exsportfile 42The 43.Ar exportsfile 44argument specifies an alternate location 45for the exports file. 46.El 47.Pp 48Sending a 49.Dv SIGHUP 50signal to 51.Xr mountd 52will cause it to reread its exports file. 53.Sh FILES 54.Bl -tag -width /etc/exports -compact 55.It Pa /etc/exports 56.El 57.Sh SEE ALSO 58.Xr nfsstat 1 , 59.Xr exports 5 , 60.Xr nfsd 8 , 61.Xr portmap 8 , 62.Xr showmount 8 63.Sh HISTORY 64The 65.Nm 66command 67.Ud 68