From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 27 7:33:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from as5200-01-254.no.neosoft.com (as5200-01-254.no.neosoft.com [206.27.167.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BC361503C for ; Sat, 27 Feb 1999 07:33:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from conrads@as5200-01-254.no.neosoft.com) Received: (from conrads@localhost) by as5200-01-254.no.neosoft.com (8.9.2/8.8.7) id JAA66906; Sat, 27 Feb 1999 09:30:26 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from conrads) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199902261749.MAA06358@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 09:30:26 -0600 (CST) Reply-To: conrads@neosoft.com From: Conrad Sabatier To: "Crist J. Clark" Subject: Re: NFS help needed Cc: asmodai@wxs.nl, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 26-Feb-99 Crist J. Clark wrote: > Conrad Sabatier wrote, >> I'm running mountd with the flags "-l -r -n", and nfsd with the flags >> "-r -u -t -n 4". > ^^ >>From 'man nfsd,' > > -r Register the NFS service with portmap(8) without creating > any > servers. This option can be used along with the -u or -t > options > to re-register NFS if the portmap server is restarted. > > I stress the words "without creating any servers." Are there any > servers running on your system? What does, > > % ps aux | grep nfsd > > Return? Ah! You're right! You know, when I first started trying to play with NFS, I was getting "program not registered" RPC errors, so I thought using the -r flag might help. Didn't even notice I wasn't starting up any servers! I mistakenly assumed the 4 nfsiod's I saw in ps were all I needed. Duh! Thanks so much! -- Conrad Sabatier There is nothing wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure. -- Ross MacDonald To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message