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Date:      Mon, 27 Dec 1999 06:42:10 +0600 (NOVT)
From:      "Alexey N. Dokuchaev" <danfe@inet.ssc.nsu.ru>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How to I tell nfsd that /etc/exports has changed?
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.04.9912270640510.4907-100000@inet.ssc.nsu.ru>
In-Reply-To: <199912262035.VAA11339@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>

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On Sun, 26 Dec 1999, Oliver Fromme wrote:

> Stan Brown wrote in list.freebsd-questions you wrote (26 Dec 1999 18:54:16 +0100):
>  > 	After Icahnge /etc/exports, how do I make the chnages take effect,
>  > 	short of rebooting?
> 
> nfsd doesn't care about your exports at all.  It's mountd that
> has to be notified about changes in your /etc/exports:
> 
> kill -HUP $(cat /var/run/mountd.pid)
> 
> After that, you should do "tail /var/log/messages" to see
> whether there were any problems with your /etc/exports file.
> 

Well, it seems that I can simply rerun mountd, and it will reread
/etc/exports -- just  about the same effect as HUPing it.

Any confirmations?

./danfe




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