03-13-2005
nfsd won't start at boot up
Hi
Inexplicably, nfsd no longer starts automatically on our Sun boxes running Solaris 9, so that 'automount' no longer functions automatically. The problem first manifested itself when we could not access files on any of the nfs automounted directories in our LAN after one of the servers (say server A) was rebooted. Attempts to 'cd' to any of the directories on server B served up by server A were met with a 'permission denied'. 'ps - ef | grep nfsd' revealed that 'nfsd' was not running. Meanwhile 'automount' was issueing the message: 'server A not responding' though we could 'ping' server A just fine. We then rebooted server B, and its 'nfsd' too failed to start at boot up, leading to the same 'automount' problem on server A. Starting 'nfsd' manually on both systems fixes the 'automount' problem on both. Perhaps because of whatever caused this behavior, we are no longer able to access these servers using 'SSH' or 'sftp'. Regular non-secure 'ftp' works, but only within the LAN (we are behind an institution-wide firewall). This behavior just came out of the blue, as up until this week these servers have behaved extremely well and reliably for a few years, in providing all kinds of services and resources. Please help!
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LEARN ABOUT MOJAVE
mountd
MOUNTD(8) BSD System Manager's Manual MOUNTD(8)
NAME
mountd -- service remote NFS mount requests
SYNOPSIS
Obsolete. See nfsd(8).
DESCRIPTION
The mountd daemon was formerly the server for NFS mount requests from NFS clients. This functionality has been moved into the NFS server
daemon nfsd(8).
Please refer to nfsd(8) for NFS server documenation.
The following is a list of former mountd options that are now available as nfsd(8) options:
mountd option nfsd option Description
-n -N allow non-root mounts
-r -R allow regular file mounts
exportsfile -F exportsfile alternate exports file
However, such configuration options are normally specified via nfs.conf(5).
When the NFS server is started, it loads the export host addresses and options into the kernel using the nfssvc(2) system call. After chang-
ing the list of exports (either directly or indirectly via a change in netgroup membership), the administrator should send a hangup signal to
the nfsd daemon to get it to reload the export information:
kill -s HUP `cat /var/run/nfsd.pid`
For backwards compatibility, the following should also work:
kill -s HUP `cat /var/run/mountd.pid`
Any errors encountered while processing the export entries will be logged via syslog(3).
FILES
/etc/exports the list of exported filesystems
/var/run/mountd.pid the pid of the currently running mountd
/var/run/mountdtab the current list of outstanding mounts served
/var/run/mountdexptab
information about exported file systems and directories (UUIDs, handles, ...)
SEE ALSO
nfsd(8), exports(5), nfs.conf(5), nfsstat(1), portmap(8), showmount(8)
HISTORY
The mountd utility first appeared in 4.4BSD. It's functionality was merged into nfsd(8) in Darwin 9.
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