NAME

rmtab − remotely mounted file system table

SYNOPSIS

/etc/rmtab

DESCRIPTION

Rmtab contains a record of all clients that have done remote mounts of file systems from this machine.  Whenever a remote mount is done, an entry is made in the rmtab file of the machine serving up that file system.  Umount removes remotely mounted file system entries.  Umount −a broadcasts to all servers, and informs them that they should remove all entries from rmtab created by the sender of the broadcast message.  The table is a series of lines of the form

hostname:directory

This table is used only to preserve information between crashes, and is read only by mountd(8) when it starts up. Mountd keeps an in-core table, which it uses to handle requests from programs like showmount(1) and shutdown(8).

FILES

/etc/rmtab

SEE ALSO

mount(8), mountd(8), showmount(8), shutdown(8), umount(8)

BUGS

Although the rmtab table is close to the truth, it is not always 100% accurate. 

4BSD