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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: NFS: Why /usr can mount but not /var?
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 18:36:11 -0800
Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM
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To: Elya Kurktchi <kurktchi@qualcomm.com>

Elya Kurktchi wrote:
> usr's and put in var's, I cannot mount /var off of my remote host.  Anybody
> know why?  It's the same line as /usr, but I get permission denieds.

Are you sure that /var is its own filesystem?  If it's on /, then
clearly that's the filesystem you need to export.
-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  President, FreeBSD Project