rmtab(4)                            CLIX                            rmtab(4)



  NAME

    rmtab - Remotely mounted Network File System (NFS) file system table

  DESCRIPTION

    The /etc/rmtab file contains a record of all clients who have performed
    remote mounts of Network File Systems (NFS) from the server machine.
    Whenever a remote mount command is executed, an entry is made in the rmtab
    file of the machine serving that file system.  The table is a series of
    lines with the following form:

    hostname:directory:tag

    This table is used only to preserve information between crashes, and is
    read by the mountd command when it starts up and by the exportfs command
    when exporting directories.  The tag field is used by the exportfs command
    to find netgroup clients that have mounts.  The mountd command keeps an
    in-core table, which it uses to handle requests from commands like
    showmount and shutdown.

    When a remotely mounted file system is unmounted using the umount command,
    the entry is commented out.

  CAUTIONS

    The rmtab table may be inaccurate if clients shutdown abnormally (PANIC)
    without explicitly unmounting the NFS file systems.

  RELATED INFORMATION

    Commands:  exportfs(4), mount(8), mountd(8), showmount(8), shutdown(8)






















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