exportfs help

[Steven Chen_1]

My rc.log showed an error after rebooting:
"exportfs error: /disk1/temp: No such file or directory".

I find out that it was the left-over linking two hp servers. After that operation, we did not need it anymore, so /etc/fstab entry was deleted and /disk1/temp was deleted too.

The /etc/exports file reads as:
"/disk1/temp -anon=65534"

I would like to know if it is save to remove /etc/exports file, and how to get rid of this kind of error message.

Thanks in advance.

[Alan Riggs]

If you have no other directories being exported from this achine, it is safe to remove the /etc/exports file. Alternatively, you may simply remove the line in question and leave an empty, permission protected /etc/exports file in place.

[Rick Garland]

You could remove the entry in the /etc/exportfs file.

[Antoanetta Naghiu]

Just comment out the /disk/temp or whatever from /etc/exports file.
If the file has no more lines, you can delete it.

[Manju Kampli]

"/disk1/temp -anon=65534"
comment the above line in /etc/exports file OR delete the above line.

when NFS services are started they read /etc/exports file and try to export the above directory which is not available now. Hence you are getting the error. by removing it you can avoid the error message.