Why do I get errors from mountd (can't change attributes for ... bad exports list line ...) ?

[Chuck Swiger]

Hi--

On Oct 30, 2009, at 2:49 PM, Yuri wrote:
> I am getting these errors in messages:
> Oct 30 14:37:20 eagle mountd[4243]: can't change attributes for /usr/ 
> local
> Oct 30 14:37:20 eagle mountd[4243]: bad exports list line /usr/local  
> -maproot
> Oct 30 14:37:20 eagle mountd[4243]: can't change attributes for /usr/ 
> home
> Oct 30 14:37:20 eagle mountd[4243]: bad exports list line /usr/home - 
> network
>
> Here is my /etc/exports:
> /usr/diskless -alldirs -maproot=root -ro -network=10.0.0 - 
> mask=255.0.0.0
> /usr/local -maproot=root -ro -network=10.0.0 -mask=255.0.0.0
> /usr/home -maproot=root -network=10.0.0 -mask=255.0.0.0
>
> What's wrong?
>
> Also why messages are so cryptic? Which attributes? Why "bad exports  
> list line"?
> If it would explain in messages what's wrong I wouldn't even be  
> asking question here.

For one thing, the second line should be:

	/usr/local -maproot=root,ro -network=10.0.0 -mask=255.0.0.0

For another, you are only supposed to export a given filesystem once;  
the notion of exporting it multiple times means you are changing the  
values of the previous export, and that's not supported.  See:

   http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=109911

...or your friendly documentation on NFS.

Regards,
-- 
-Chuck