From owner-freebsd-doc Sun Sep 21 17:44:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA28260 for doc-outgoing; Sun, 21 Sep 1997 17:44:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from coven.queeg.com (queeg.com [204.95.70.218]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA28249 for ; Sun, 21 Sep 1997 17:44:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from brion@localhost) by coven.queeg.com (8.8.5/8.8.4) id RAA19193; Sun, 21 Sep 1997 17:43:44 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 21 Sep 1997 17:43:44 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199709220043.RAA19193@coven.queeg.com> From: Brion Moss MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Greg Lehey Cc: Vicki Brown , freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: exportfs - missing from Handbook (help?) In-Reply-To: <19970922091544.08492@lemis.com> References: <19970922091544.08492@lemis.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.22 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk If you'd like to make it easy, just create a script called exportfs which contains: #!/bin/sh kill -HUP `cat /var/run/mountd.pid` If you want to report a bug or request a feature, run send-pr; it will drop you into an editor so you can fill out a bug-report form. -Brion Greg Lehey writes: > 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 >