mountd(1M)                                                          mountd(1M)


NAME
     mountd - NFS mount/umount request server

SYNOPSIS
     /usr/etc/rpc.mountd [ -nriC ] [ -l seconds ] [ -m threads ]

DESCRIPTION
     mountd is an rpc(4) server that answers rpc filesystem mount/umount
     requests.  One such sender of the requests is autofs.  mountd reads the
     file /etc/xtab (described in exportfs(1M)) to determine which filesystems
     are available to which machines and users.  It also provides information
     as to which clients have filesystems mounted.  This information is stored
     in the servers /etc/rmtab file and can be accessed using the
     showmount(1M) command.

     Prior to IRIX 6.5.26, the mountd daemon was usually invoked by inetd(1M).
     Starting with IRIX 6.5.26, the daemon is started from the network startup
     script if nfsd chkconfig flag is set to ``on''.

OPTIONS
     -n             Normally, mountd only accepts requests from clients using
                    a privileged (i.e. secure) port.  This option disables
                    this check and allows mountd to accept requests from any
                    port.

     -l seconds     If started from inetd, the mountd will terminate if it has
                    not serviced any requests in 60 seconds.  This option can
                    be used to adjust the time period.  The minimum period is
                    1 second.

     -r             Remove entries thought to be corrupted from the /etc/rmtab
                    file.  If you have host names with pound (#) signs in them
                    or exported paths with pound signs or colons (:) do not
                    use this option.

     -m threads     Run in multithreaded mode, using the specified number of
                    threads.

     -i             Skip processing of /etc/rmtab file. If this option is
                    specified mountd will not read the content of the file on
                    start up and will not update the file when mount and
                    unmount requests are processed. The information for
                    showmount(1M) is provided from the in-core buffer which is
                    persistent only during the life time of the single mountd
                    process.

     -C             Starting with IRIX 6.5.29, mountd will not report exports,
                    which correspond to a root directory of a mounted
                    filesystem, with the nohide export option to clients who
                    use the showmount -e command or client autofs demons.
                    This makes nohide actually useful with non-IRIX clients.
                    To support any clients which may not be able to handle


                    nohide, the -C option reverts to the earlier behavior.

FILES
     /etc/rmtab
     /etc/xtab
     /etc/config/rpc.mountd.options

SEE ALSO
     inetd(1M), showmount(1M), chkconfig(1M), exportfs(1M), rmtab(4),
     services(4).


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