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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!news.belwue.de!news.dfn.de!news.uni-jena.de!news.HRZ.HAB-Weimar.DE!News.HTWM.De!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: NFS: Why /usr can mount but not /var? Date: 20 Feb 1996 01:23:53 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4gb7r9$d34@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4g8qoa$k5p@qualcomm.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 kurktchi@qualcomm.com (Elya Kurktchi) writes: > in my /etc/exports file, i put in 2 lines to test out nfs between > two freebsd boxes. they are: > /usr -alldirs > /var -alldirs > > > when i telnet to my other freebsd box and type: mount host:/usr /usr1, i'm > able to mount my "host"'s /usr as /usr1 on my box. Now when I replace the > usr's and put in var's, I cannot mount /var off of my remote host. Anybody > know why? It's the same line as /usr, but I get permission denieds. Is /var part of your / file system? Mount permissions are being granted per file system, not per directory. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)