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Date:      Mon, 18 May 1998 15:10:11 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Question re: NFS and permissions,
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980518150944.9951m-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980516235330.00596590@mail.vt.edu>

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On Sat, 16 May 1998, John Baldwin wrote:

> Hi all, there is probably an answer to this question in the online docs or
> man pages, but I've yet to find it, so here goes...
> 
> I'm trying to export my /usr/ports directory, but when I attempt to put
> /usr/ports in my exports file, mountd sends an error to syslog saying that
> the entry is invalid because it "can't change permissions on /usr/ports".
> Here is the offending line from /etc/exports:

You have to export filesystems, not specific directories.  Try exporting
all of /usr with the -alldirs directive.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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