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Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:21:07 -0600 (CST)
From: Font <font@Mcs.Net>
To: William Wong <wwong@wiley.csusb.edu>
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Subject: Re: Exporting NFS filesystems
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I think you really want to send SIGHUP to mountd, not nfsd.  Check man
page for details.

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On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, William Wong wrote:

> Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 11:21:07 -0800 (PST)
> From: William Wong <wwong@wiley.csusb.edu>
> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Exporting NFS filesystems
> 
> Question:  How do I export a part of the filesystem after the entry
> has been added to the exports file?  I know I can do this on SunOS
> systems using exportfs.  Is there an equivalent command to do this?
> I have tried "kill -HUP" on the nfsd and even actually killed it and
> started another one (nfsd -u -t 4) to no avail.  showmount shows nothing
> being exported from the system.  I don't have to restart the system,
> do I?
> 
> I'm running 2.2.5-stable with the NFS option compiled in the kernel.
> In rc.conf I have:
>[omitted]
> --
> William T. Wong
>   Phone:   (909) 880-7281
>   email:   wwong@wiley.csusb.edu
>