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How to restart NFS in HPUX

Published: September 28, 2016 | Modified: June 20, 2020



Step by step procedure to restart NFS services in HPUX. Follow this procedure with a given sequence to stop and start NFS gracefully.

Requirement :

To restart NFS server in HPUX

How to do it :

Please make a note that all exported NFS mount points will be unavailable to all clients during this restart.

Stop NFS

# /sbin/init.d/nfs.server stop
killing nfsd
killing rpc.mountd
# /sbin/init.d/nfs.client stop
killing nfs4cbd
# /sbin/init.d/nfs.core stop
killing nfsmapid
killing rpcbind

Read also :

  • How to configure NFS in HPUX and Linux.
  • NFS Stale file handle error troubleshooting

Start NFS

# /sbin/init.d/nfs.core start
    Starting NFS CORE networking

    Starting up the rpcbind
        /usr/sbin/rpcbind
# /sbin/init.d/nfs.client start
    Starting NFS CLIENT subsystem

    Starting up nfs4cbd daemon
        /usr/sbin/nfs4cbd
      Starting up nfsmapid daemon
        /usr/sbin/nfsmapid
    Mounting remote NFS file systems ...
    Mounting remote CacheFS file systems ...
# /sbin/init.d/nfs.server start
    Starting NFS SERVER subsystem

    Reading in /etc/dfs/dfstab
    Starting up the mount daemon
        /usr/sbin/rpc.mountd
    Starting up the NFS server daemon
        /usr/sbin/nfsd
      Starting up nfsmapid daemon

Make sure you follow the sequence while stopping and starting as mentioned above.

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Filed Under: HPUX, System services Tagged With: How to restart NFS in HPUX, NFS in HPUX, restart nfs, Start NFS in HPUX, Stop NFS in HPUX

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