From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 15 23:42:16 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 220AE16A402 for ; Sun, 15 Jul 2007 23:42:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ioplex@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.231]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D671113C4B8 for ; Sun, 15 Jul 2007 23:42:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ioplex@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i29so821403wxd for ; Sun, 15 Jul 2007 16:42:14 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=rXIFrHUid+HJp0+/8b4umIisIEE23jW0H5gkK1q+pG/GE0+dtcjrLvE/VELz1HXhEQBUXjU4cU6Vr7OONOQgve62SPbxEIqvqAnVvGXt24Asuc8kzssRaCJiDS4YUk3jg+fKbNZE9JexqYHLUPOkpaoeNc+BTy2bEgu+A/tBCdc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=YCsJZQTg3SCjIOGGTYEpZm6K/BUAG+eSPLcq5mp3jMdfZWKJto0t8UkgZyY7fY93mGfjgDpEsu+vg2JxhFX4eOpobN7GTymqz6XBPzwV1e3Jq5+V1WKhOB0cED8j2BJDhg6sWfhztLF8ogGCkEKX8YiH2ozxsIjoD/TNfuSOYu4= Received: by 10.70.9.8 with SMTP id 8mr6880667wxi.1184542934783; Sun, 15 Jul 2007 16:42:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.38.11 with HTTP; Sun, 15 Jul 2007 16:42:14 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <78c6bd860707151642k9c33d45nd6a73ff47d6a488d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 19:42:14 -0400 From: "Michael B Allen" To: freebsd-questions In-Reply-To: <20070715222657.GA57181@slackbox.xs4all.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <78c6bd860707151425q61f9263fl27b2da6260bb6da6@mail.gmail.com> <20070715222657.GA57181@slackbox.xs4all.nl> Subject: Re: amd X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 23:42:16 -0000 On 7/15/07, Roland Smith 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