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rc.log shows : exportfs error: nothing to export

Franky Leeuwerck_1 — Tue, 06 May 2003 07:37:49 GMT

Hello,

The rc.log on my HP-UX 11 system shows : exportfs error: nothing to export

What does it mean and does need intervention ?

Thanks in advance.
Franky

Start NFS client subsystem
Output from "/sbin/rc2.d/S430nfs.client start":
----------------------------
starting NFS CLIENT networking

starting up the rpcbind
rpcbind already started, using pid: 452
starting up the BIO daemons
/usr/sbin/biod 4
exportfs error: nothing to export.
Reading in /etc/exports
starting up the Status Monitor daemon
/usr/sbin/rpc.statd
starting up the Lock Manager daemon
/usr/sbin/rpc.lockd
starting up the Automount daemon
/usr/sbin/automount -f /etc/auto_master
mounting remote NFS file systems ...

Output from "/sbin/rc3.d/S100nfs.server start":
----------------------------
starting NFS SERVER networking

starting up the rpcbind daemon
rpcbind already started, using pid: 452
exportfs error: nothing to export.
Reading in /etc/exports
starting up the mount daemon
/usr/sbin/rpc.mountd
starting up the NFS daemons
/usr/sbin/nfsd 4
starting up the Status Monitor daemon
rpc.statd already started, using pid: 488
starting up the Lock Manager daemon

Re: rc.log shows : exportfs error: nothing to export

Stefan Farrelly — Tue, 06 May 2003 07:40:38 GMT

No, it doesnt need intervention and nothing to worry about.

If you have some local filesystems you want to export via nfs to other servers then you specify them in /etc/exports, if you have none to export then when the nfs server software starts it checks to see if /etc/exports has anything to export, if not then it simply notifies you of this.

Re: rc.log shows : exportfs error: nothing to export

Franky Leeuwerck_1 — Tue, 06 May 2003 08:22:21 GMT

Stefan,

Thanks for your quick reply. This helps us further.

Regards,
Franky