Cleaned up the wording in the rpc.nfsd(8) manpage

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

diff --git a/utils/nfsd/nfsd.man b/utils/nfsd/nfsd.man
index d175d11677b8a39795e168da1ee72db0fa31e008..4eb3e211ffbab6791955987db21d83b0ed4f9537 100644 (file)
--- a/utils/nfsd/nfsd.man
+++ b/utils/nfsd/nfsd.man
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 .\" nfsd(8)
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (C) 1999 Olaf Kirch <okir@monad.swb.de>
-.TH rpc.nfsd 8 "31 May 1999"
+.TH rpc.nfsd 8 "7 Aug 2006"
 .SH NAME
 rpc.nfsd \- NFS server process
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ The
 .B rpc.nfsd
 program implements the user level part of the NFS service. The
 main functionality is handled by the
-.B nfsd.o
+.B nfsd
 kernel module; the user space program merely starts the specified
 number of kernel threads.
 .P
@@ -22,6 +22,17 @@ server provides an ancillary service needed to satisfy mount requests
 by NFS clients.
 .SH OPTIONS
 .TP
+.B \-H " or " \-\-host  hostname
+specify a particular hostname (or address) that NFS requests will
+be accepted on. By default,
+.B rpc.nfsd
+will accept NFS requests on all known network addresses.
+Note that
+.B lockd
+(which performs file locking services for NFS) may still accept
+request on all known network addresses.  This may change in future
+releases of the Linux Kernel.
+.TP
 .B \-p " or " \-\-port  port
 specify a diferent port to listen on for NFS requests. By default,
 .B rpc.nfsd
@@ -34,6 +45,16 @@ does not offer certain versions of NFS. The current version of
 .B rpc.nfsd
 can support both NFS version 2,3 and the newer version 4.
 .TP
+.B \-T " or " \-\-no-tcp
+Disable 
+.B rpc.nfsd 
+from accepting TCP connections from clients.
+.TP
+.B \-U " or " \-\-no-udp
+Disable
+.B rpc.nfsd
+from accepting UDP connections from clients.
+.TP
 .I nproc
 specify the number of NFS server threads. By default, just one
 thread is started. However, for optimum performance several threads
@@ -43,8 +64,20 @@ load created by the NFS clients, but a useful starting point is
 the
 .BR nfsstat (8)
 program.
+.P
+Note that if the NFS server is already running, then the options for
+specifying host, port, and protocol will be ignored.  The number of
+processes given will be the only option considered, and the number of
+active
+.B nfsd
+processes will be increased or decreased to match this number.
+In particular
+.B rpc.nfsd 0
+will stop all threads and thus close any open connections.
+
 .SH SEE ALSO
 .BR rpc.mountd (8),
+.BR exports (5),
 .BR exportfs (8),
 .BR rpc.rquotad (8),
 .BR nfsstat (8).