Re: Mergemaster won't run on NFS mount

Thomas Laus wrote:
>I have been updating FreeBSD for years on my fastest computer and then
>NFS mounting /usr/src and /usr/obj to share with other PC's.  I just
>updated FreeBSD-CURRENT to 326070 and was able to install the kernel and
>world.  When I attempted to run mergemaster, I received the following
>error message:
>
>*** Creating the temporary root environment in /var/tmp/temproot
> *** /var/tmp/temproot ready for use
> *** Creating and populating directory structure in /var/tmp/temproot
>
> /bin/sh: cannot create freebsd.cf: Permission denied
Make sure mountd is running with the "-S" option on the nfs server. If not,
any mount operation done on the NFS server will result in EACCES failures
while /etc/exports is being reloaded.
(If it is running with "-S" I don't know why it would fail?)

rick
ps: "-S" should be the default now...