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| -rw-r--r-- | ChangeLog | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | utils/exportfs/exports.man | 7 |
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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 |