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Date:      Mon, 22 Sep 1997 09:15:44 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Vicki Brown <vlb@cfcl.com>
Cc:        freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: exportfs - missing from Handbook (help?)
Message-ID:  <19970922091544.08492@lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <v03102812b04b457842b8@[140.174.42.25]>; from Vicki Brown on Sun, Sep 21, 1997 at 01:46:41PM -0800
References:  <v03102812b04b457842b8@[140.174.42.25]>

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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




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