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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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