> Mark Post wrote: > > Adam's suggestion will certainly work, but I wouldn't > bother. I would > > make the NFS export available to the one IP address that will be > > scanning it and forget about it. > > Could you reformulate the question, please?
The original question was how to selectively export filesystems via NFS to an external system for processing (in this case, virus scanning, which is CPU intensive) and then revoke the export when the external system is not using them. Adam's suggestion was to start and stop the NFS server process via cron. Mark's refinement was to explicitly specify the system DNS name or IP address in /etc/exports so that the NFS server would permit only that system to actually access the filesystems. I would add one more refinement: use automounter on the client system doing the virus scanning and Mark's suggestion in combination. That way, the file systems are only mounted when in use, and a human being doesn't need to be involved at all. -- db ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
