From 9d7c25c179cee1899224a8d79a5bec9ecdbf23bd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: sheldonh <sheldonh@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 11:43:48 +0000
Subject: Explicitly state that mountd can be made to re-read the exports file,
 even though this may seem obvious to some folks.

Requested by:	obrien
---
 usr.sbin/mountd/exports.5 | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)

(limited to 'usr.sbin')

diff --git a/usr.sbin/mountd/exports.5 b/usr.sbin/mountd/exports.5
index 6506b5b..93a0794 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/mountd/exports.5
+++ b/usr.sbin/mountd/exports.5
@@ -276,6 +276,25 @@ associated with ``root'';
 it is exported to all hosts on network ``cis-net'' allowing mounts at any
 directory within /u2 and mapping all uids to credentials for the principal
 that is authenticated by a Kerberos ticket.
+.Pp
+The
+.Xr mountd 8
+utility can be made to re-read the
+.Nm
+file by sending it a hangup signal as follows:
+.Bd -literal -offset indet
+kill -s HUP `cat /var/run/mountd.pid`
+.Ed
+.Pp
+After sending the
+.Dv SIGHUP ,
+check the
+.Xr syslogd 8
+output to see whether
+.Xr mountd 8
+logged any parsing errors in the
+.Nm
+file.
 .Sh FILES
 .Bl -tag -width /etc/exports -compact
 .It Pa /etc/exports
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