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From: spm@staff.cc.purdue.edu (Sean P McDermott)
Subject: Re: nfsd won't start....
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Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1993 01:33:58 GMT
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In article <29sg4a$10n9@thebes.cc.waikato.ac.nz> hamish@thebes.cc.waikato.ac.nz (Hamish Marson) writes:
>I'm trying to export a filesystem via NFS under NetBSD-0.9 but although
>mountd starts fine, I can't get nfsd to start. No matter what parameters,
>it just returns, and no daemons are started. No errorsa, and nothing in 
>the syslog.


	Are you using a GENERIC* kernel ?  If so,  you need to recompile the
kernel to include

options 		NFSSERVER

Hope this helps :-)

PS: NFS has been working great on two machines here.
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spm@staff.cc.purdue.edu
Sean McDermott