rmtab(4)                                                 rmtab(4)



NAME
     rmtab - remotely mounted file system table

DESCRIPTION
     rmtab 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.  umount removes 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.
     By  placing  a  umount  -a  command in /etc/sysinitrc, 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(1M) when it starts up.
     mountd keeps an in-core  table,  which  it  uses  to  handle
     requests from programs like showmount(1M) and shutdown(1M).

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

FILES
     /etc/rmtab
          File containing a file system table

SEE ALSO
     mount(1M), mountd(1M), showmount(1M), shutdown(1M),
     umount(1M) in A/UX System Administrator's Reference





















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