nfs issue...

[Pete Nesbitt]

On July 1, 2004 03:14 pm, bruce wrote:
> hi...
>
> getting bold... thought i'd configure a basic nfs test... i have a rh8.0
> with gnome. running gnome, i selected the nfs service, and walked through
> the process. i created a dir to use as the nfs dir, and i selected a
> machine on my network as the host.
>
> i then attempted to start the service.. and it never came back.... the "NFS
> SErver Configuration" dialog/app is grey...
>
> i did a "ps -ef" and got...
>
> root     14424 14198  0 14:25 ?        00:00:00 sh -c { /sbin/service nfs
> start
> root     14425 14424  0 14:25 ?        00:00:00 /bin/sh /sbin/service nfs
> start
> root     14428 14425  0 14:25 ?        00:00:00 /bin/sh /etc/init.d/nfs
> start
> root     14438 14428  0 14:25 ?        00:00:00 initlog -q -c rpc.nfsd 8
> root     14439 14438  0 14:25 ?        00:00:00 rpc.nfsd 8
>
> i tried to start the NFS Service from the "Services Menu" as well...with no
> luck...
>
> so.. any ideas as to what's going on, and why things are hanging....
>
> thanks for any assistance/pointers/comments...
>
> -bruce


Hi Bruce,
try stoping then starting it from the command line
'service nfsd stop' then 'service nfsd start'
that may give you some status about what is going on. Also look in 
/var/log/messages ('grep nfs /var/log/messages')

-- 
Pete Nesbitt, rhce