how to count nfs clients attached to my server?

[Timothy Murphy]

Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

>> > /usr/sbin/showmount will give you a list of IP's connected.
>> 
>> I had never heard of this program, so I ran it and got
>> ----------------------------------------------
>> [tim at carrie ~]$ sudo showmount -a
>> showmount: RPC: Program not registered
>> ----------------------------------------------
>> How is one meant to "register" the program?
> 
> It's been years since I knew this stuff but IIRC the "unregistered"
> program is either the nfs daemon (nfsd) or the mount daemon (mountd). In
> this context "unregistered" just means it isn't running. Check
> serviceconf.

Thanks.
I misunderstood the purpose of the program.
I see now that one has to run it on a machine running nfsd.

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