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Date:      Mon, 27 Dec 1999 14:28:18 +0100 (CET)
From:      Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How to I tell nfsd that /etc/exports has changed?
Message-ID:  <199912271328.OAA21065@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>

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Alexey N. Dokuchaev wrote in list.freebsd-questions:
 > On Sun, 26 Dec 1999, Oliver Fromme wrote:
 > > 
 > > kill -HUP $(cat /var/run/mountd.pid)
 > > 
 > > After that, you should do "tail /var/log/messages" to see
 > > whether there were any problems with your /etc/exports file.

BTW, all of this is explained in the mountd(8) manpage.  Please
read it.

 > Well, it seems that I can simply rerun mountd, and it will reread
 > /etc/exports -- just  about the same effect as HUPing it.
 > 
 > Any confirmations?

No.  It will just start another copy of the mountd process,
leaving the old one hanging around.  Sending a SIGHUP to the
daemon (using its PID file) is the "canonical" and most
portable way to let it re-read its config file.  This works
for many other daemons, too.

Regards
   Oliver

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