| MOUNTD(8) | System Manager's Manual | MOUNTD(8) |
mountd —
mountd |
[-dN] [-P
policy] [-p
port] [exportsfile ...] |
mountd is the server for NFS mount requests from other
client machines.
mountd makes all filesystems listed in
exports(5) available to NFS
clients, and then listens for mount service requests at the port indicated
in the NFS server specification; see Network File System
Protocol Specification, RFC 1094, Appendix A and
NFS: Network File System Version 3 Protocol
Specification, Appendix I.
Options and operands available for
mountd:
-dmountd will not detach from
the controlling terminal and will print debugging messages to stderr.-N-P
policymountd logs an error message and terminates
itself.-p
portmountd to bind to the given port. If this
option is not given, mountd may bind to every
anonymous port (in the range 600-1023) which causes trouble when trying to
use NFS through a firewall.When mountd is started, it loads the
export host addresses and options into the kernel using the
nfssvc(2) system call. After
changing the exports file, a hangup signal should be sent to the
mountd daemon to get it to reload the export
information. After sending the SIGHUP (kill -s HUP `cat
/var/run/mountd.pid`), check the syslog output to see if
mountd logged any parsing errors in the exports
file.
After receiving SIGTERM, mountd sends a
broadcast request to remove the mount list from all the clients. This can
take a long time, since the broadcast request waits for each client to
respond.
mountdmountd utility first appeared in
4.4BSD.
| February 16, 2021 | NetBSD 10.1 |