From owner-freebsd-doc Sun Sep 21 16:46:05 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA25379 for doc-outgoing; Sun, 21 Sep 1997 16:46:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA25374 for ; Sun, 21 Sep 1997 16:45:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) id JAA08883; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 09:15:44 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19970922091544.08492@lemis.com> Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 09:15:44 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Vicki Brown Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: exportfs - missing from Handbook (help?) References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e In-Reply-To: ; from Vicki Brown on Sun, Sep 21, 1997 at 01:46:41PM -0800 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8250 Fax: +61-8-8388-8250 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Fight-Spam-Now: http://www.cauce.org Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, Sep 21, 1997 at 01:46:41PM -0800, Vicki Brown wrote: > We've looked through the online documentation (starting with exports(5)) > and into the Handbook and FAQ but we can't find this: > > Short of rebooting the system, how do we get FreeBSD to recognize a new or > changed entry in the /etc/exports file? > > Many Unixes implement the exportfs command but FreeBSD apparently does not > (what address do I use for feature requests? :-) Change your entries in /etc/exports, then: # ps aux | grep mountd root 97 0.0 0.0 596 0 ?? Is Fri04PM 0:00.38 mountd -n root 8875 0.0 0.5 252 500 p4 S+ 9:14AM 0:00.03 grep mountd # kill -1 97 97 is the PID of mountd; that's why we look for it with ps. Greg