2001-12-26 Chip Salzenberg <chip@pobox.com>

[nfs-utils.git] / utils / mountd / mountd.man

diff --git a/utils/mountd/mountd.man b/utils/mountd/mountd.man
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--- a/utils/mountd/mountd.man
+++ b/utils/mountd/mountd.man
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 .\" mountd(8)
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (C) 1999 Olaf Kirch <okir@monad.swb.de>
-.TH rpc.mountd 8 "31 May 1999"
+.TH rpc.mountd 8 "25 Aug 2000"
 .SH NAME
 rpc.mountd \- NFS mount daemon
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -42,44 +42,97 @@ syntax.
 For every mount request received from an NFS client,
 .B rpc.mountd
 adds an entry to the
-.B /var/state/nfs/rmtab
+.B /var/lib/nfs/rmtab
 file. When receiving an unmount request, that entry is removed.
 user level part of the NFS service.
 .P
 However, this file is mostly ornamental. One, the client can continue
 to use the file handle even after calling
-.BR rpc.mountd 's
+.B rpc.mountd 's
 UMOUNT procedure. And two, if a client reboots without notifying
-.BR rpc.mountd ,
+.B rpc.mountd ,
 a stale entry will remain in
 .BR rmtab .
 .SH OPTIONS
 .TP
-.\" This file isn't touched by mountd at all--even though it
-.\" accepts the option.
-.\" .BR \-f " or " \-\-exports-file
-.\" This option specifies the exports file, listing the clients that this
-.\" server is prepared to serve and parameters to apply to each
-.\" such mount (see
-.\" .BR exports (5)).
-.\" By default, export information is read from
-.\" .IR /etc/exports .
+.B \-d kind " or " \-\-debug kind
+Turn on debugging for kind.
 .TP
-.BR \-N " or " \-\-no-nfs-version
+.B \-F " or " \-\-foreground
+Run in foreground (do not daemonize)
+.TP
+.B \-f " or " \-\-exports-file
+This option specifies the exports file, listing the clients that this
+server is prepared to serve and parameters to apply to each
+such mount (see
+.BR exports (5)).
+By default, export information is read from
+.IR /etc/exports .
+.TP
+.B \-h " or " \-\-help
+Display usage message.
+.TP
+.B \-o num " or " \-\-descriptors num
+Set the limit of the number of open file descriptors to num. The
+default is 256.
+.TP
+.B \-N " or " \-\-no-nfs-version
 This option can be used to request that
 .B rpc.mountd
-does not offer certain versions of NFS. The current version of
+do not offer certain versions of NFS. The current version of
 .B rpc.mountd
 can support both NFS version 2 and the newer version 3. If the
 NFS kernel module was compiled without support for NFSv3,
 .B rpc.mountd
 must be invoked with the option
-.BR "\-\-no-nfs-version 3" .
+.B "\-\-no-nfs-version 3" .
+.TP
+.B \-n " or " \-\-no-tcp
+Don't advertise TCP for mount.
+.TP
+.B \-P
+Ignored (compatibility with unfsd??).
+.TP
+.B \-p " or " \-\-port
+Force
+.B rpc.mountd
+to bind to the specified port, instead of using the random port
+number assigned by the portmapper.
 .TP
-.BR \-v " or " \-\-version
+.B \-V " or " \-\-nfs-version
+This option can be used to request that
+.B rpc.mountd
+offer certain versions of NFS. The current version of
+.B rpc.mountd
+can support both NFS version 2 and the newer version 3.
+.TP
+.B \-v " or " \-\-version
 Print the version of
 .B rpc.mountd
 and exit.
+
+.SH TCP_WRAPPERS SUPPORT
+This
+.B rpc.mountd
+version is protected by the
+.B tcp_wrapper
+library. You have to give the clients access to
+.B rpc.mountd
+if they should be allowed to use it. To allow connects from clients of
+the .bar.com domain you could use the following line in /etc/hosts.allow:
+
+mountd: .bar.com
+
+You have to use the daemon name 
+.B mountd
+for the daemon name (even if the binary has a different name).
+
+For further information please have a look at the
+.BR tcpd (8)
+and
+.BR hosts_access (5)
+manual pages.
+
 .SH SEE ALSO
 .BR rpc.nfsd (8),
 .BR exportfs (8),
@@ -87,6 +140,6 @@ and exit.
 .BR rpc.rquotad (8).
 .SH FILES
 .BR /etc/exports ,
-.BR /var/state/nfs/xtab .
+.BR /var/lib/nfs/xtab .
 .SH AUTHOR
 Olaf Kirch, H. J. Lu, G. Allan Morris III, and a host of others.