Setting up NFS but no exportfs program - what to do?

[Larry Alkoff]

Hawkwind wrote:
> On 10/12/06, marcus <lists at wordit.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Thursday 12 October 2006 22:26, Larry Alkoff wrote:
>> > I am setting up NFS on Kubuntu 6.06 but there is no exportfs which is
>> > a program required to publish the NFS shares in /etc/exports.
>> > I have looked in 'which exportfs' and 'locate exportfs' as root but
>> > it's not on my system.
>>
>> Try reinstalling, or removing the packages. It should be part of these
>> packages or another dependency which apt should find.
>> Or try a complete removal with Synaptic (I don't know the apt-get switch
>> for that).
>>
>> sudo apt-get update
>> sudo apt-get install nfs-kernel-server nfs-common portmap
> 
> 
> 
> I've set up NFS here on Kubuntu and never had anything to do with exportfs.
> I simply edit my /etc/exports file and be done with it all.  What exactly
> are you needing this exportfs stuff for ?
> 
Darned if I know Marcus.  All I know is that I've read that exportfs
is the program that takes your exports and tells the kernel
what to do.

In any case, installing nfs-common again did it and exportfs has appeared.

Larry

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