From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 11 20:17:28 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA15887 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 20:17:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA15881 for ; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 20:17:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA20164; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 23:18:39 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199902120418.XAA20164@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: suggest add an item. In-Reply-To: <36C393BD.6B7EFB57@research.nokia.com> from Shi Yu at "Feb 12, 99 10:36:45 am" To: yu.shi@research.nokia.com Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 23:18:39 -0500 (EST) Cc: FAQ@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Shi Yu wrote, > Such is human being that Newcomers who want to use FreeBSD as a NFS > server > do not send a SIGHUP to mountd after modifying /etc/exports. > Of course, it will not work. > Then they got irritated and begin to complain. > So I suggest add this item to the FAQs. > Best regards! % man mountd . . . After changing the ex- ports 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. . . . Right there on the manpage. Anyone who wonders why his mountd is not working should know to look there. You would be doing everyone a disservice by diluting more relavent questions in the FAQ with things clearly covered by manpages. HTH. RTFM. HAND. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message