nfsd(1M)                      UNIX System V(NFS)                       nfsd(1M)


NAME
      nfsd - NFS daemon

SYNOPSIS
      nfsd [ -a ] [ -p protocol ] [-t device ] [ nservers ]

DESCRIPTION
      nfsd starts the daemons that handle client file system requests.

      The following options are recognized:

     -a     start nfsd's over all available connectionless transports

     -p protocol
             start nfsd's over the specified protocol

     -t device
             start nfsd's for the transport specified by the given device

     nservers
             the number of file system request daemons to start.

      nservers should be based on the load expected on this server.  Four is
      the usual number of nservers.

      The nfsd daemons are automatically invoked in run level 3.

FILES
      .nfsXXX             client machine pointer to an open-but-unlinked file

SEE ALSO
      biod(1M), mountd(1M), sharetab(4).






















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