Difference between mountd and rpc.mountd in 11.31

[Sagar Sirdesai]

Hi
I need to know if there is any difference between mountd and rpc.mountd daemons

Sagar

[Analyst]

Hi Sagar,

both daemon looks serves for same purpose.

But it refers different files to execute it.

mountd is an RPC server that answers file system mount requests.It reads file /etc/xtab to determine which directories are available to which machines.

you must set the START_MOUNTD variable
to 1 in the /etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf file. To monitor the rpc.mountd process, you must start it when the system boots up, not by inetd.

Thanks,
Analyst.

[Sagar Sirdesai]

Hi

Thanks for your reply

The man pagaes for the both the daemons is the same which is why i am confused which daemon does what and refers which files

Sagar

[unixguy_1]

Hi Sagar,

rpc.mountd is daemon,and it's used for NFS Concept.

Regards,
Unixguy.

[unixguy_1]

Hi Sagar,

Both daemons are doing the same job and rpc.mountd is a main daemon to check the NFS sharing files and mount it.

Both are mount the file systems.

Pls check and revert back.

Regards,
Unixguy.

[Dave Olker]

Hi Sagar,

I'm a bit confused. Are you saying you have both a "mountd" and an "rpc.mountd" daemon running on your 11.31 system?

Regards,

Dave

[Sagar Sirdesai]

Hi Dave
Only rpc.mountd daemon is running.

But I do not know wht mountd is not running.
Hence I am asking this query

Sagar

[Dennis Handly · Accepted solution]

>But I do not know why mountd is not running.

Because there is no such thing? I see no evidence of mountd in /usr/sbin.
On my systems, I only have automountd & rpc.mountd.

I suppose you should contact the Response Center to get the man page fixed.

[Sagar Sirdesai]

Hi Dan

Thanks a lot for the information

So this means there is an error in man pages

Regards

Sagar

[unixguy_1]

Hi Sagar,

Only rps.mountd daemon is working,
and mountd daemon is the inbulit and it resolves the rpc.mountd daemon.

Pls check and revert back.

Regards,
Unixguy.

[Dave Olker]

The man page lists both names because this daemon is referred to as "mountd" in some of the legacy documentation and it's called "mountd" on other UNIX platforms. For the sake of ease of administration in heterogeneous environments we link both names to the same man page.

On HP-UX only the rpc.mountd daemon exists but it is functionally equivalent to what the mountd daemon does on other platforms.

Hope this helps,

Dave