Re: Exportfs not showing exported file systems (was RE: stdio and nfs-utils)

[Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>]

On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:43:10 -0700
"Muntz, Daniel" <Dan.Muntz@netapp.com> wrote:

> Could all this be related to a problem that we've been seeing while
> working on v4/4.1 at netapp, where exportfs doesn't show any output even
> when there are exported file systems?  Ricardo recently observed that if
> you redirect the output of 'exportfs' then you actually do get the
> correct output (e.g., exportfs > afile, or exportfs | more).  This lead
> to some experiments with strace that show exportfs behaving differently
> when its output is going to a tty.  We've seen this behavior across a
> variety of kernels (2.6.18-2.6.20) and a variety of nfs-utils
> (prepackaged with FC6, RHEL4/5, and built from a local copy of 1.0.12).
> 

I saw a very similar problem with RHEL5 prior to its release. It turned
out to be a selinux policy issue. I believe the latest selinux-policy
packages in Fedora and RHEL have fixed it if it's the same problem.

-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>

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