The
utility is the server for
NFS
mount requests from other client machines.
It listens for service requests at the port indicated in the
NFS
server specification; see
"Network File System Protocol Specification" ,
RFC1094, Appendix A and
"NFS: Network File System Version 3 Protocol Specification" ,
Appendix I.
The following options are available:
-2
Allow the administrator to force clients to use only the
version 2
NFS
protocol to mount file systems from this server.
-d
Output debugging information.
will not detach from the controlling terminal and will print
debugging messages to stderr.
-h bindip
Specify specific IP addresses to bind to for TCP and UDP requests.
This option may be specified multiple times.
If no
-h
option is specified,
will bind to
INADDR_ANY
Note that when specifying IP addresses with
-h
will automatically add
127.0.0.1
and if IPv6 is enabled,
::1
to the list.
-l
Cause all succeeded
requests to be logged.
-n
Allow non-root mount requests to be served.
This should only be specified if there are clients such as PC's,
that require it.
It will automatically clear the vfs.nfsrv.nfs_privport sysctl flag, which
controls if the kernel will accept NFS requests from reserved ports only.
-p port
Force
to bind to the specified port, for both
AF_INET
and
AF_INET6
address families.
This is typically done to ensure that the port which
binds to is a known quantity which can be used in firewall rulesets.
If
cannot bind to this port, an appropriate error will be recorded in
the system log, and the daemon will then exit.
-r
Allow mount RPCs requests for regular files to be served.
Although this seems to violate the mount protocol specification,
some diskless workstations do mount requests for
their swapfiles and expect them to be regular files.
Since a regular file cannot be specified in
/etc/exports
the entire file system in which the swapfiles resides
will have to be exported with the
-alldirs
flag.
exportsfile
Specify an alternate location
for the exports file.
More than one exports file can be specified.
When
is started,
it loads the export host addresses and options into the kernel
using the
mount(2)
system call.
After changing the exports file,
a hangup signal should be sent to the
daemon
to get it to reload the export information.
After sending the SIGHUP
(kill -s HUP `cat /var/run/mountd.pid`),
check the syslog output to see if
logged any parsing
errors in the exports file.
If
detects that the running kernel does not include
NFS
support, it will attempt to load a loadable kernel module containing
NFS
code, using
kldload(2).
If this fails, or no
NFS
KLD was available,
exits with an error.
