From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 26 16:42:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from linux.ssc.nsu.ru (linux.ssc.nsu.ru [193.124.209.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E8E1D15218 for ; Sun, 26 Dec 1999 16:42:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from danfe@inet.ssc.nsu.ru) Received: (qmail 20627 invoked from network); 27 Dec 1999 00:42:46 -0000 Received: from inet.ssc.nsu.ru (62.76.110.12) by hub.freebsd.org with SMTP; 27 Dec 1999 00:42:46 -0000 Received: from localhost (danfe@localhost) by inet.ssc.nsu.ru (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id GAA04982 for ; Mon, 27 Dec 1999 06:42:10 +0600 Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 06:42:10 +0600 (NOVT) From: "Alexey N. Dokuchaev" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to I tell nfsd that /etc/exports has changed? In-Reply-To: <199912262035.VAA11339@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> 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 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message