Does showmount ever forget?

[Don Lewis]

In article <3839 at bwdls58.UUCP> hwt at bwdlh490.bnr.ca (Henry Troup) writes:
>In article <3717 at auspex.auspex.com> guy at auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
>>>Is there any way of getting Pender to forget that these machines were
>>>ever NFS clients?
> 
>>1) kill off "rpc.mountd";
> 
>>2) edit "/etc/rmtab" to remove the offending entries;
> 
>>3) start up "rpc.mountd" again.
>
>I added 'rm /etc/rmtab; touch /etc/rmtab' in /etc/rc.local, to ensure that the
>file is cleaned up on reboot.  What other files should be but aren't removed on
>restart?
>
No, you don't want to do that either.  Let's say host A mounts a filesystem
from host B.  Using your configuration, if host B is rebooted, showmount
will think that no other hosts are mounting filesystems from it, even though
host A still is.
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