Re: Showmount Problem

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From: Manfred Kwiatkowski
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 16:44

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In article <1993Jan7.140900.4773@titan.ksc.nasa.gov>, steve@vulture.ksc.nasa.gov (Steve Schindler) writes:
|> 
|> >Try deleting /etc/rmtab.
|>
|> Alas, this doesn't affect anything.

True, indeed.
|>
|> According to my Interactive Unix manual, rmtab "is used only to preserve
|> information between crashes and is read only by mountd(1M) when it starts up.
|> The mountd command keeps an in-core table, which it uses to handle requests
|> from programs like showmount(1) and shutdown(1M)."

Restarting mountd does the trick. I tried this one. :-)
No obvious side effects encountered.

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Manfred Kwiatkowski         kwiatkowski@zrz.tu-berlin.de

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From: kwia4000@wncs.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE (Manfred Kwiatkowski)
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Subject: Re: Showmount Problem
Date: 8 Jan 1993 16:44:54 GMT
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