MOUNTD(8) BSD System Manager's Manual MOUNTD(8)NAMEmountd — service remote NFS mount requests
SYNOPSIS
Obsolete. See nfsd(8).
DESCRIPTION
The mountd daemon was formerly the server for NFS mount requests from NFS
clients. This functionality has been moved into the NFS server daemon
nfsd(8).
Please refer to nfsd(8) for NFS server documenation.
The following is a list of former mountd options that are now available
as nfsd(8) options:
mountd option nfsd option Description
-n-N allow non-root mounts
-r-R allow regular file mounts
exportsfile -F exportsfile alternate exports file
However, such configuration options are normally specified via
nfs.conf(5).
When the NFS server is started, it loads the export host addresses and
options into the kernel using the nfssvc(2) system call. After changing
the list of exports (either directly or indirectly via a change in net‐
group membership), the administrator should send a hangup signal to the
nfsd daemon to get it to reload the export information:
kill -s HUP `cat /var/run/nfsd.pid`
For backwards compatibility, the following should also work:
kill -s HUP `cat /var/run/mountd.pid`
Any errors encountered while processing the export entries will be logged
via syslog(3).
FILES
/etc/exports the list of exported filesystems
/var/run/mountd.pid the pid of the currently running mountd
/var/run/mountdtab the current list of outstanding mounts served
/var/run/mountdexptab
information about exported file systems and directo‐
ries (UUIDs, handles, ...)
SEE ALSOnfsd(8), exports(5), nfs.conf(5), nfsstat(1), portmap(8), showmount(8)HISTORY
The mountd utility first appeared in 4.4BSD. It's functionality was
merged into nfsd(8) in Darwin 9.
BSD November 10, 2006 BSD
