From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 18 15:10:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA18247 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 18 May 1998 15:10:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA18189 for ; Mon, 18 May 1998 15:10:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA10200; Mon, 18 May 1998 15:10:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 15:10:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: John Baldwin cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question re: NFS and permissions, In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980516235330.00596590@mail.vt.edu> 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, 16 May 1998, John Baldwin wrote: > Hi all, there is probably an answer to this question in the online docs or > man pages, but I've yet to find it, so here goes... > > I'm trying to export my /usr/ports directory, but when I attempt to put > /usr/ports in my exports file, mountd sends an error to syslog saying that > the entry is invalid because it "can't change permissions on /usr/ports". > Here is the offending line from /etc/exports: You have to export filesystems, not specific directories. Try exporting all of /usr with the -alldirs directive. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message