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Date:      Wed, 19 Jun 2002 23:25:13 +0100 (BST)
From:      Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
To:        Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: showmount showing *very* old information
Message-ID:  <200206192225.XAA21572@rhymer.cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: Ceri Davies's message of Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:48:29 %2B0100

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> Where does showmount get it's information from ?

It gets it from mountd, which keeps it in /var/db/mountdtab.

> None of the above hosts actually exist anymore, 

That's why the server hasn't noticed them unmounting the filesystems :-)

If a client is halted while the server is down, the server doesn't
have any way of knowing about it until the client comes up again.

-- Richard

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