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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!crcnis1.unl.edu!wupost!waikato!thebes.cc.waikato.ac.nz!hamish From: hamish@thebes.cc.waikato.ac.nz (Hamish Marson) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: nfsd won't start.... Date: 18 Oct 1993 02:14:46 GMT Organization: The University of Waikato Lines: 29 Message-ID: <29su6m$15kn@thebes.cc.waikato.ac.nz> References: <29sg4a$10n9@thebes.cc.waikato.ac.nz> <CF2KCn.Lo6@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: thebes.cc.waikato.ac.nz X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] Sean P McDermott (spm@staff.cc.purdue.edu) wrote: > In article <29sg4a$10n9@thebes.cc.waikato.ac.nz> hamish@thebes.cc.waikato.ac.nz (Hamish Marson) writes: > >I'm trying to export a filesystem via NFS under NetBSD-0.9 but although > >mountd starts fine, I can't get nfsd to start. No matter what parameters, > >it just returns, and no daemons are started. No errorsa, and nothing in > >the syslog. > Are you using a GENERIC* kernel ? If so, you need to recompile the > kernel to include > options NFSSERVER > Hope this helps :-) Yeah, as a matter of fact I was.... I assumed NFSSERVER would be there in a generic kernel, assuming that generic meant everything including the kitchen sink as SunOS generic's do... -- ====================================================================== | Hamish Marson | | Systems Programmer | | | Computer Services | INTERNET h.marson@waikato.ac.nz | | University of Waikato | PHONE +64 7 8562889 xt 8181 | | New Zealand | FAX +64 7 8384066 | ===========Disclaimer :- Remember. You heard it here first.===========