Missing line on Network File System page

Manolis Kiagias sonic2000gr at gmail.com
Wed Dec 10 17:00:14 UTC 2008


Errol Sayre wrote:
> I think the documentation at
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/network-nfs.html is
> missing a line under section 30.3.2
>
> The options to configure in /etc/rc.conf does not include
> mountd_enable="YES" despite having the mount flags for it.
>

Read the line exactly after the sample rc.conf entries:

"mountd runs automatically whenever the NFS server is enabled."

While technically the mountd_enable option exists (as can be verified by
reading /etc/defaults/rc.conf) it is not required if nfs_server_enable
is set in rc.conf.



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