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| author | Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> | 2009-08-14 13:42:22 -0400 |
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| committer | Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com> | 2009-08-14 13:42:22 -0400 |
| commit | ceb090c16e3a9f0509b3eb5e703c91a89d5a25f0 (patch) | |
| tree | 6c39044f27dba397e623f26e2b70372877d3f643 /utils/nfsd/nfsd.man | |
| parent | 542b5ba9e68a6bbabe9b29b5d29b5b793b3e8d4f (diff) | |
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Add some clarification about the purpose of the program, info about the
--debug and --syslog options, and a note about how it behaves when
TI-RPC support is built in.
Signed-off-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'utils/nfsd/nfsd.man')
| -rw-r--r-- | utils/nfsd/nfsd.man | 25 |
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/utils/nfsd/nfsd.man b/utils/nfsd/nfsd.man index 4eb3e21..d8988d2 100644 --- a/utils/nfsd/nfsd.man +++ b/utils/nfsd/nfsd.man @@ -13,8 +13,9 @@ The program implements the user level part of the NFS service. The main functionality is handled by the .B nfsd -kernel module; the user space program merely starts the specified -number of kernel threads. +kernel module. The user space program merely specifies what sort of sockets +the kernel service should listen on, what NFS versions it should support, and +how many kernel threads it should use. .P The .B rpc.mountd @@ -22,6 +23,9 @@ server provides an ancillary service needed to satisfy mount requests by NFS clients. .SH OPTIONS .TP +.B \-d " or " \-\-debug +enable logging of debugging messages +.TP .B \-H " or " \-\-host hostname specify a particular hostname (or address) that NFS requests will be accepted on. By default, @@ -45,6 +49,14 @@ 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 \-s " or " \-\-syslog +By default, +.B rpc.nfsd +logs error messages (and debug messages, if enabled) to stderr. This option makes +.B rpc.nfsd +log these messages to syslog instead. Note that errors encountered during +option processing will still be logged to stderr regardless of this option. +.TP .B \-T " or " \-\-no-tcp Disable .B rpc.nfsd @@ -75,12 +87,19 @@ In particular .B rpc.nfsd 0 will stop all threads and thus close any open connections. +.SH NOTES +If the program is built with TI-RPC support, it will enable any protocol and +address family combinations that are marked visible in the +.B netconfig +database. + .SH SEE ALSO .BR rpc.mountd (8), .BR exports (5), .BR exportfs (8), .BR rpc.rquotad (8), -.BR nfsstat (8). +.BR nfsstat (8), +.BR netconfig(5). .SH AUTHOR Olaf Kirch, Bill Hawes, H. J. Lu, G. Allan Morris III, and a host of others. |