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From: hwt@.bnr.ca (Henry Troup)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Does showmount ever forget?
Keywords: SunOS 4.0.3, showmount, shutdown, rwall
Message-ID: <3839@bwdls58.UUCP>
Date: 26 Jul 90 14:41:30 GMT
References: <27297@netnews.upenn.edu> <3717@auspex.auspex.com>
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Reply-To: hwt@bwdlh490.bnr.ca (Henry Troup)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ltd.
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In article <3717@auspex.auspex.com> guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
>>Is there any way of getting Pender to forget that these machines were
>>ever NFS clients?
 
>1) kill off "rpc.mountd";
 
>2) edit "/etc/rmtab" to remove the offending entries;
 
>3) start up "rpc.mountd" again.

I added 'rm /etc/rmtab; touch /etc/rmtab' in /etc/rc.local, to ensure that the
file is cleaned up on reboot.  What other files should be but aren't removed on
restart?

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