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From: William Wong <wwong@wiley.csusb.edu>
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Subject: Re: Exporting NFS filesystems
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Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 13:13:37 -0800 (PST)
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980106141955.3471B-100000@Jupiter.Mcs.Net> from "Font" at Jan 6, 98 02:21:07 pm
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> 
> I think you really want to send SIGHUP to mountd, not nfsd.  Check man
> page for details.
> 
> A bug in my MUA causes news.announce.newusers                            font
> to be sent to beneficiaries and senders of UCE/SPAM.                        @
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> Wishes are like dishes.
> 
> 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
> > 
> 
> 

I originally did a "kill -HUP" on mountd without any success.  That's what
prompted me to try the other methods in hopes of getting it to work.  I did
find out what the actual problem was.  I didn't RTFM!  In the entry, an
option was included: -maproot=something -access=something.  I guess -access
wasn't an option and so mountd considered the whole entry as being invalid
without saying so.  Removing the -access option did the job.  If only the
UNIX community was a little more standardized... :)

Thanks for the quick response!


-- 
William T. Wong
  Phone:   (909) 880-7281
  email:   wwong@wiley.csusb.edu