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  From: Alan Kennington <Alan.Kennington@dsto.defence.gov.au>
  To  : LinuxSA <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 15:45:49 +1030 (CST)

NFS daemon question

Topic:
-   Question about how to signal "nfsd" to export a file system.

Linux NFS experts:

I'm having difficulties with getting my linux NFS daemon to export
my CD-ROM drive (without re-booting).

I have a PC running redhat 4.0 (2.0.18 kernel) and a sparc station
running SunOS4.1.3 in the same room (at home).
The PC and sparc both exchange file systems via NFS as they should
(but only after I re-booted both machines after an electrical storm).

I've added a line to the PC's /etc/exports file to export
my CD-ROM drive /cdrom = /dev/hdc.
But the documentation says I have to give a HUP signal to the
NFS daemon to make it re-read /etc/exports, and the deamon
doesn't seem to be there!

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
rat:akenning> ps -ax |grep nfs
    4  ?  SW   0:00 (nfsiod)
    5  ?  SW   0:00 (nfsiod)
    6  ?  SW   0:00 (nfsiod)
    7  ?  SW   0:00 (nfsiod)
  182  ?  S    0:00 rpc.nfsd
rat:akenning>
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

There's no mention of nfsiod in the manuals, as far as I can see.
And my rpc manual seems to be missing.

Questions:
Is "rpc.nfsd" really the "nfsd" that I have to send HUP to?

Where is this all documented?

I've already checked in /usr/man, /usr/doc and /usr/doc/HOWTO.

Cheers,
Alan Kennington.

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