nfs
Ben Pfaff
pfaffben@msu.edu
07 Feb 2001 09:15:02 -0500
"Marcel Kunath" <kunathma@pilot.msu.edu> writes:
> I was just glancing over an article and I got stuck on this sentence regarding
> /etc/exports:
>
> If you specify *.freeos.com in the access list, abc.freeos.com and
> def.abc.freeos.com will be able to mount the exported directory, but
> xyz.abc.freeos.com will not have access.
It's a mistake. See exports(5):
wildcards
Machine names may contain the wildcard characters *
and ?. This can be used to make the exports file
more compact; for instance, *.cs.foo.edu matches
all hosts in the domain cs.foo.edu. However, these
wildcard characters do not match the dots in a
domain name, so the above pattern does not include
hosts such as a.b.cs.foo.edu.
--
"...In the UNIX world, people tend to interpret `non-technical user'
as meaning someone who's only ever written one device driver."
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