Hello,
We have a problem on one of our servers (running Tru64 4.0E PK4), which is
that clients running SuSE Linux 7.0 cannot mount NFS file systems from
it. Clients running SuSE 6.4 don't have a problem, and nor does another
Tru64 system.
The other symptom is that
rpcinfo -p hostname
just hangs.
This suggests to me a problem with the portmap daemon, but ps shows it is
still running. My question is: can I restart portmap without unmounting
all NFS file systems? Experience shows that unmounting NFS file systems on
a running system is pretty much impossible, you have to do a reboot.
The portmap man page says that services using it must be restarted if it
aborts: could I just restart portmap and mountd without affecting nfsd?
The service has been running since a powercut on 12th July, I'd hate to
spoil such a good record!
Bob
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Bob Vickers R.Vickers_at_dcs.rhbnc.ac.uk
Dept of Computer Science, Royal Holloway, University of London
WWW:
http://www.cs.rhbnc.ac.uk/home/bobv
Phone: +44 1784 443691
Received on Wed Oct 11 2000 - 16:27:45 NZDT