Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Sun, 15 Jul 2007 19:42:14 -0400
From:      "Michael B Allen" <ioplex@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: amd
Message-ID:  <78c6bd860707151642k9c33d45nd6a73ff47d6a488d@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070715222657.GA57181@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
References:  <78c6bd860707151425q61f9263fl27b2da6260bb6da6@mail.gmail.com> <20070715222657.GA57181@slackbox.xs4all.nl>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On 7/15/07, Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 05:25:46PM -0400, Michael B Allen wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm a C developer. I normally use Linux but I'm trying FreeBSD with
> > limited success.
> >
> > First thing I need to do mount an NFS volume. I was able to mount it
> > manually. Fine. Then I added an entry to amd.map, did 'amd /mnt
> > /etc/amd.map' and tried to access the directory in /mnt and it worked.
> > Fine. Then I killed amd, tried and failed to figure out how to get amd
> > to start automatically on boot. Then I tried to start amd again as
> > before and now it doesn't work:
>
> Daemons are enabled in /etc/rc.conf. You can see the defaults in
> /etc/defaults/rc.conf.
>
> For amd and nfs you should have the following in /etc/rc.conf:
>
> rpcbind_enable=3D"YES"
> amd_enable=3D"YES"

Hi Roland,

Indeed. That worked.

> nfs_client_enable=3D"YES"
>
> Section =A724.3 of the FreeBSD handbook can enlighten you further. You ca=
n
> find an english HTML version in
> file:///usr/share/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-nfs.html
>
> Reading the relevant sections of the Handbook if a good way to become
> acquainted with FreeBSD.

Well I didn't install X but I see there's an online version. Nice.

Thanks,
Mike



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?78c6bd860707151642k9c33d45nd6a73ff47d6a488d>