RMTAB(5)                COMMAND REFERENCE                RMTAB(5)



NAME
     rmtab - local file system mount statistics

DESCRIPTION
     The rmtab file resides in directory /etc and 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.  The program umount removes entries, if of
     a remotely mounted file system; umount -a broadcasts to all
     servers, and informs the servers that they should remove all
     entries from rmtab created by the sender of the broadcast
     message.  By placing a umount -a command in /etc/rc.boot,
     rmtab tables can be purged of entries made by a crashed
     host, which upon rebooting did not remount the same file
     systems it had before.  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

CAVEATS
     Although the rmtab table is close to the truth, it is not
     always entirely accurate.

SEE ALSO
     showmount(1), mountd(8), mount(8), umount(8), and
     shutdown(8).




















Printed 3/13/89                                                 1

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de:358,1491;
fi:1849,89;
ca:1938,223;
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