topic Re: showmount in Operating System - HP-UX

showmount

Stefan Schulz — Tue, 19 Dec 2000 09:13:30 GMT

When i use showmount serverA i get a list with a lot different machines. Some of this machines are long gone.

Although the server has recently rebooted showmount shows those old entrys. How do i cleanup this list ?

Re: showmount

CHRIS_ANORUO — Tue, 19 Dec 2000 09:22:41 GMT

Remove the client entries in /etc/rmtab and reboot the server. You can then do umount -a or reboot the server.

Re: showmount

Stefan Schulz — Tue, 19 Dec 2000 09:36:58 GMT

I was afraid you'd say to reboot the server. I forgot to mention that i already edited the /etc/rmtab but this didn't have any effect (as you already know).

Rebooting is no option for the next weeks as this is a production system.

After reading the manpages again i couldnt find any disadvantages in this outdated list. Am i right? Is this list just for informational purposes or has this some meaning regarding performance?

But if this list is not reliable, of what use is it then?

Thanks for your reply.

Re: showmount

Rainer_1 — Tue, 19 Dec 2000 12:19:41 GMT

as long as rpc.mountd runs the showmount will not change it's output even if /etc/rmtab is changed.
To get a new fresh showmount output you have to edit /etc/rmtab and then stop/restart rpc.mountd

Find the pid with

ps -ef | grep rpc.mountd

Then kill the pid an restart rpc.mountd with

/usr/sbin/rpc.mountd

(i've tested it on a running system and the established NFS connections were not affected)

Re: showmount

Dan Hetzel — Tue, 19 Dec 2000 14:06:43 GMT

Hi Stefan,

Rainer is right! As rpc.mountd is the mount request server, it won't break your present NFS mounts.
You can safely issue that command on a production box as long as you restart it immediately.

After the restart, showmount should give you the right info.

Best regards,

Dan

Re: showmount

Stefan Schulz — Tue, 19 Dec 2000 14:41:03 GMT

Dan, Rainer thanks for your help. I have been afraid of killing the mountd, but with your assurence that this is ok i solved this issue.

I'm still not sure if this was a problem or just cosmetics but it is solved now.

Thanks a lot.

Stefan

Re: showmount

Dan Hetzel — Tue, 19 Dec 2000 14:59:36 GMT

Glad it helped !

Dan