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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Does showmount ever forget?
Keywords: SunOS 4.0.3, showmount, shutdown, rwall
Message-ID: <3717@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 22 Jul 90 01:44:07 GMT
References: <27297@netnews.upenn.edu>
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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The answer to the question in the subject line is "well, that's not
exactly the right way to phrase the question, but yes, sometimes the
mount daemon's list of files other machines have mounted doesn't get
entries deleted from it when they should be."

>Is there any way of getting Pender to forget that these machines were
>ever NFS clients?

It's a slight pain, but:

1) kill off "rpc.mountd";

2) edit "/etc/rmtab" to remove the offending entries;

3) start up "rpc.mountd" again.