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Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 17:44:05 +1100
To: Devon Ryan <dpryan@midway.uchicago.edu>
From: Rob B <rbyrnes@ozemail.com.au>
Subject: Re: NFS: bad exports list - FIXED
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At 16:24 21/03/2002, Devon Ryan sent this up the stick:
>Rob B wrote:
>>Hi all,
>>I'm having no end of troubles with NFS.  I'm pretty sure that I have a 
>>correct /etc/exports:
>>/usr/local/nfsroot/doormat  -alldirs  -ro  10.0.0.3
>>But I'm getting the following error in /var/log/messages:
>>Mar 21 15:09:05 erwin mountd[11726]: could not remount 
>>/usr/local/nfsroot/doormat: Invalid argument
>>Mar 21 15:09:05 erwin mountd[11726]: bad exports list line 
>>/usr/local/nfsroot/doormat  -alldirs  -ro  10.0.0.3
>
>Is /usr/local/nfsroot/doormat a mount point (like /usr normally)?  I 
>believe this is required for the use of -alldirs.  If not, remove that 
>flag from /etc/exports and give it a whirl.

Thanks Devon, this fixed it :)

Cheers,
Rob


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