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Date:      Sun, 5 Jul 1998 11:11:23 +0300 (EEST)
From:      Vallo Kallaste <root@myhakas.matti.ee>
To:        "Jason K. Fritcher" <jkf@wolfnet.org>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: mountd w/ -alldirs option
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980705110049.9393A-100000@myhakas.matti.ee>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980704203650.825A-100000@outreach.wolfnet.org>

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On Sat, 4 Jul 1998, Jason K. Fritcher wrote:

> 
> Hello. I am trying to export a directory tree to a diskless OpenBSD box from
> a FreeBSD 2.2.6-stable box, and I am having difficulties with mountd. I need
> to be able to export a swap file for OBSD, and after reading the man page
> for mountd(8) and exports(5), and have added this line to my /etc/exports.
> 
> /usr/export/rowe -alldirs rowe.wolfnet.org
> 
> When I 'kill -HUP' mountd, it syslogs the following error messages.
> 
> Jul  4 17:05:49 outreach mountd[124]: Could not remount /usr/export/rowe: Invalid argument
> Jul  4 17:05:49 outreach mountd[124]: Bad exports list line /usr/export/rowe -alldirs rowe
> 
> If I remove the -alldirs flag, mountd does not complain about the line. I've
> searched through the mailing list for things to try, and there weren't any
> answers.

***

Please read _carefully_ exports(5) man page. First time I encountered 
same situation.


Vallo Kallaste
vallo@matti.ee


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