RMTAB(4)							      RMTAB(4)

NAME    [Toc]    [Back]

     rmtab - remotely mounted file system table

DESCRIPTION    [Toc]    [Back]

     Rmtab resides in the directory /etc and contains a	record of all clients
     that have done remote mounts of file systems from this machine.  Whenever
     a remote mount is done, an	entry is made in the rmtab file	of the machine
     serving up	that file system.  Umount removes entries of a remotely
     mounted file system.  Umount -a broadcasts	to all servers,	and informs
     them that they should remove all entries from rmtab created by the	sender
     of	the broadcast message (this is done automatically during system
     startup).	The table is a series of lines of the form:

	   hostname:directory

     This table	is used	only to	preserve information between crashes, and is
     read only by mountd(1M) when it starts up.	 Mountd	keeps an in-core
     table, which it uses to handle requests from programs like	showmount(1)
     and shutdown(1M).

FILES    [Toc]    [Back]

     /etc/rmtab

SEE ALSO    [Toc]    [Back]

     showmount(1), mountd(1M), mount(1M), umount(1M), shutdown(1M)

BUGS    [Toc]    [Back]

     Although the rmtab	table is close to the truth, it	is not always 100%
     accurate.


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