NFS and amd on older FreeBSD

[Ronald Klop]

On Fri, 13 Jan 2017 09:06:56 +0100, Daniel Braniss <danny at cs.huji.ac.il>  
wrote:

>
>> On 12 Jan 2017, at 21:01, Karl Young <karly at kipshouse.org> wrote:
>>
>> Daniel Braniss(danny at cs.huji.ac.il)@2017.01.12 10:25:03 +0200:
>>>
>>>> On 12 Jan 2017, at 9:49 AM, Daniel Braniss <danny at cs.huji.ac.il>  
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On 12 Jan 2017, at 1:47 AM, Karl Young <karly at kipshouse.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I inherited a lab that has a few hundred hosts running FreeBSD 7.2.
>>>>> These hosts run test scripts that access files that are stored on
>>>>> FreeBSD 6.3 host.  The 6.3 host exports a /data directory with NFS
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On the 7.2 hosts, I can see the exported directory:
>>>>>
>>>>> $ showmount -e 6.3-host
>>>>> Exports list on 6.3-host
>>>>> /data                              Everyone
>>>>>
>>>>> And access it with amd
>>>>>
>>>>> $ ls -l /net/6-3.host/data
>>>>>
>>>>> drwxr-xr-x     5 root  wheel      512 Jun  4  2009 git
>>>>> drwxr-xr-x  4586 root  wheel    83968 Nov  2 04:50 home
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm trying to retire the 6.3 host and replace it with 9.3 (I know  
>>>>> it's
>>>>> old, but it's the best I can do for now).
>>>>>
>>>>> I export the /data directory on the 9.3 system, and I can see it on  
>>>>> my
>>>>> 7.2 hosts.
>>>>>
>>>>> $ showmount -e  9.3-host
>>>>> Exports list on 9.3-host:
>>>>> /data                           Everyone
>>>>>
>>>>> But I can't automount it:
>>>>>
>>>>> $ ls -l /net/9.3-host/data
>>>>> ls: /net/9.3-host/data: No such file or directory
>>>>>
>>>>> If I manually mount the exported directory, it works:
>>>>>
>>>>> $ sudo mount -t nfs 9.3-host:/data /mnt/data/
>>>>> $ mount | grep nfs
>>>>> 9.3-host:/data on /mnt/data (nfs)
>>>>>
>>>>> $ ls -l /mnt/data
>>>>> total 4
>>>>> drwxr-xr-x  9 root  wheel  512 Dec 20 17:41 iaf2
>>>>>
>>>>> I've spent some time on Google, but haven't found a solution.  I  
>>>>> realize
>>>>> these are very old versions, but I'm not in a position to upgrade  
>>>>> them
>>>>> right now.  My last resort will be to use /etc/fstab to do the NFS
>>>>> mount, but I'd rather avoid that if I can.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for any pointers on how to resolve this.
>>>>>
>>>>> -karl
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> if you changed the export file on the server after you tried to mount  
>>>> in on the client,
>>>> and will not realise this, if that’s the case, usually rebooting the  
>>>> client helps.
>>>>
>>> s/and/amd/ ^%$# hate spell checkers
>>>
>>
>> Thanks Danny
>>
>> I did try rebooting the client (and server) multiple times to no avail.
>
>
> what does amq say?
> you can, from another host do: amq -h client-host
>
> btw, I thing that nfs_server must also run on the client …
> I have nfs_server_enable=YES
>

$ 20:10:57 ronald at sjakie [~]
grep nfs_ser /etc//defaults/rc.conf
nfs_server_enable="NO"		# This host is an NFS server (or NO).


Is your client a NFS server? If not than there is not need for  
nfs_server_enable YES on the client.

Regards,
Ronald.


> danny
>
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