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 8.2 (Berkeley) 08/17/94 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 36Do not require that clients make mount requests from reserved ports. 37(Normally, only mount requsts from reserved ports are accepted.) 38This option should only be specified if there are clients, such as PC's, 39that need it. 40.It Ar exportsfile 41The 42.Ar exportsfile 43argument specifies an alternate location 44for the exports file. 45.El 46.Pp 47When mountd is started, 48it loads the export host addresses and options into the kernel 49using the mount(2) system call. 50After changing the exports file, 51a hangup signal should be sent to the mountd daemon 52to get it to reload the export information. 53After sending the SIGHUP 54(kill -HUP `cat /var/run/mountd.pid`), 55check the syslog output to see if mountd logged any parsing 56errors in the exports file. 57.Sh FILES 58.Bl -tag -width /var/run/mountd.pid -compact 59.It Pa /etc/exports 60the list of exported filesystems 61.It Pa /var/run/mountd.pid 62the pid of the currently running mountd 63.El 64.Sh SEE ALSO 65.Xr nfsstat 1 , 66.Xr exports 5 , 67.Xr nfsd 8 , 68.Xr portmap 8 , 69.Xr showmount 8 70.Sh HISTORY 71The 72.Nm mountd 73utility first appeared in 4.4BSD. 74