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| author | neilbrown <neilbrown> | 2002-11-19 04:42:52 +0000 |
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| committer | neilbrown <neilbrown> | 2002-11-19 04:42:52 +0000 |
| commit | 617f2d4dad0525eb63ddb44b2f33d041f45578cb (patch) | |
| tree | afeee8bd0afd512d6677236e1a95b59cf954a4c7 | |
| parent | e85f72300043f96e3f352d9c8f93243d4d0a52dc (diff) | |
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@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2002-11-19 NeilBrown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> + + * utils/exportfs/exports.man: Correct notes about whether the wild + card characters match a period. They do. + 2002-10-15 Juan Gomez <juang@us.ibm.com> * utils/mountd/rmtab.c (slink_safe_rename): New. Support diff --git a/utils/exportfs/exports.man b/utils/exportfs/exports.man index 97264cd..7ab7640 100644 --- a/utils/exportfs/exports.man +++ b/utils/exportfs/exports.man @@ -45,9 +45,10 @@ parts or those containing a single dash (\-) are ignored. .IP "wildcards Machine names may contain the wildcard characters \fI*\fR and \fI?\fR. This can be used to make the \fIexports\fR file more compact; for instance, -\fI*.cs.foo.edu\fR matches all hosts in the domain \fIcs.foo.edu\fR. However, -these wildcard characters do not match the dots in a domain name, so the -above pattern does not include hosts such as \fIa.b.cs.foo.edu\fR. +\fI*.cs.foo.edu\fR matches all hosts in the domain +\fIcs.foo.edu\fR. As these characters also match the dots in a domain +name, the given pattern will also match all hosts within any subdomain +of \fIcs.foo.edu\fR. .IP "IP networks You can also export directories to all hosts on an IP (sub-) network simultaneously. This is done by specifying an IP address and netmask pair |