From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 22 23:21:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from avocet.prod.itd.earthlink.net (avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.121.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 581FD37B401 for ; Mon, 22 Oct 2001 23:21:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dialup-209.245.137.102.dial1.sanjose1.level3.net ([209.245.137.102] helo=blossom.cjclark.org) by avocet.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 15vuwH-0003d9-00; Mon, 22 Oct 2001 23:21:26 -0700 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) id f9N6KtX02444; Mon, 22 Oct 2001 23:20:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 23:20:55 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: David Kirchner Cc: Tyler Spivey , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/exports problem Message-ID: <20011022232054.F364@blossom.cjclark.org> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <20011023001540.ZBBC8787.femail14.sdc1.sfba.home.com@tspivey8> <20011022173005.O85958-100000@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011022173005.O85958-100000@localhost>; from davidk@accretivetg.com on Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 05:30:38PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 05:30:38PM -0700, David Kirchner wrote: > On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Tyler Spivey wrote: > > > i am trying to set up a freebsd file server, > > and am having a few problems. i will use Linux if i need to, > > but i want a Stable and Robust operating system. i like linux, and freebsd, but my problem is: > > in /etc/exports: > > /home -alldirs fast > > It says Invalid Line. > > what is going on? this should work. > > /usr fast > > works. > > /etc/exports only works for mount points - that is, /home must be its own > mountpoint rather than a directory of another drive. That is not true. But the format of the exports(5) file does catch a lot of people. Is that '/home' line the only one in exports(5)? What does, ls -ld /home return? /home should not be a symlink. -- Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message