How to restart NFS in HPUX

Step by step procedure to restart NFS services in HPUX. Follow this procedure with 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

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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.