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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: export a file
Date: 28 Sep 1996 19:28:46 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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"Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> > I'd like to export a file with NFS instead of a directory.  This
> 
> You can't do that.

You can do that :), but not with FreeBSD 2.1.0.  The -r option to
mountd allows for this, it appeared in 2.2-current on 1995/06/27.  It
is also available in FreeBSD 2.1.5.  So this might be a good reason
for Edwin to upgrade.

-- 
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. ;-)