From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 16 12:45:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hobbiton.shire.net (frogmorton.shire.net [204.228.145.136]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA2E937B401 for ; Thu, 16 May 2002 12:44:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [68.64.98.90] (helo=localhost) by hobbiton.shire.net with asmtp (Exim 3.36 #8) id 178RBV-000E5O-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 16 May 2002 15:45:09 -0400 Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 15:44:51 -0400 Subject: Re: mountd question Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v481) From: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: Message-Id: <6362FAED-6905-11D6-880C-000502E29155@shire.net> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.481) 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 Thursday, May 16, 2002, at 03:20 , Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > Hi > > I am trying to turn on NFS serving on a running production machine that > I cannot reboot right now. > > I run, as root > > # nfsd -u -t -n 4 > # mountd -r > > > Clients cannot mount, and after several minutes, mountd dies and gives > the message in the system log > > mountd[53312]: can't register mount Never mind. After playing for a long time iwth it, it turns out that the portmapper had not been started. (Which is strange as I had been using NFS a few days ago with this machine as server and have not changed rc.conf) thanks Chad > > > What exactly does this mean? > > Could it be an artifact from being at runlevel 3? > > Thanks > Chad > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message