Name
mountd
Synopsis
rpc.mountd [options]NFS/NIS command. NFS mount request server. mountd reads the file /etc/exports to determine which filesystems are available for mounting by which machines. It also provides information about which filesystems are mounted by which clients. See also nfsd.
Options
- -d kind, --debug kind
Specify debugging facility. Accepted values for kind are general, call, auth, parse, and all.
- -f file, --exports-file file
Read the export permissions from file instead of /etc/exports.
- -F, --foreground
Run mountd in the foreground.
- -h, --help
Print help message, then exit.
- -n, --no-tcp
Use UDP for mounts.
- -N n, --no-nfs-version n
Do not offer NFS version n.
- -o n, --descriptors n
Allow no more than n open file descriptors. The default is 256.
- -p n, --port n
Bind to specified port instead of accepting a port from portmapper.
- -r, --reverse-lookup
Perform a reverse lookup on ip address when requested to report mounting hosts (a DUMP request).
- -v, --version
Print the version number, then exit.
- -V n, --nfs-version n
Explicity offer NFS version n.
Files
- /etc/exports
Information about mount permissions.
- /var/lib/nfs/rmtab
List of filesystems currently mounted by clients.
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