From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 5 01:12:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA05218 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 5 Jul 1998 01:12:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from solaris.matti.ee (root@solaris.matti.ee [194.126.98.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA05191 for ; Sun, 5 Jul 1998 01:12:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@myhakas.matti.ee) Received: from myhakas.matti.ee (myhakas [194.126.98.150]) by solaris.matti.ee (8.8.8/8.8.8.s) with SMTP id LAA01402; Sun, 5 Jul 1998 11:11:21 +0300 (EET DST) Date: Sun, 5 Jul 1998 11:11:23 +0300 (EEST) From: Vallo Kallaste To: "Jason K. Fritcher" cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mountd w/ -alldirs option In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 4 Jul 1998, Jason K. Fritcher wrote: > > Hello. I am trying to export a directory tree to a diskless OpenBSD box from > a FreeBSD 2.2.6-stable box, and I am having difficulties with mountd. I need > to be able to export a swap file for OBSD, and after reading the man page > for mountd(8) and exports(5), and have added this line to my /etc/exports. > > /usr/export/rowe -alldirs rowe.wolfnet.org > > When I 'kill -HUP' mountd, it syslogs the following error messages. > > Jul 4 17:05:49 outreach mountd[124]: Could not remount /usr/export/rowe: Invalid argument > Jul 4 17:05:49 outreach mountd[124]: Bad exports list line /usr/export/rowe -alldirs rowe > > If I remove the -alldirs flag, mountd does not complain about the line. I've > searched through the mailing list for things to try, and there weren't any > answers. *** Please read _carefully_ exports(5) man page. First time I encountered same situation. Vallo Kallaste vallo@matti.ee To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message