On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 02:54:43AM +0100, Joel Wilsson wrote:
> On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, at 02:41  am, Paul Hoffman wrote:
> >Is there an HOWTO on setting up an NFS server? I'm looking for hints 
> >on how to make an almost-dedicated server more reliable and faster. 
> >Kernel mods are OK if they really help.
> 
> There's a section in the NetBSD handbook about NFS:
> http://www.mclink.it/personal/MG2508/nbsdeng/chap-net2.html#NFS
> 
> But in short, it's something like this...
> Add the following lines to your rc.conf:
> inetd=yes
> portmap=yes
> nfs_server=yes
> mountd=yes
> rpcbind=yes

The portmap program is gone, replaced by rpcbind. 

> Uncomment those lines in inetd.conf:
> rstatd/1-3      dgram   rpc/udp wait:100 nobody:kmem 
> /usr/libexec/rpc.rstatd rpc.rstatd
> rusersd/2-3     dgram   rpc/udp wait:100 nobody 
> /usr/libexec/rpc.rusersd rpc.rusersd

What are these for? 

My NFS servers seem OK without rusersd running or runnable by inetd.
I thought rstatd was only used as a client for 'rup', so isn't needed
for an NFS server.
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