rc.log shows : exportfs error: nothing to export

[Franky Leeuwerck_1]

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

[Stefan Farrelly · Accepted solution]

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.

[Franky Leeuwerck_1]

Stefan,

Thanks for your quick reply. This helps us further.

Regards,
Franky