NFS Daemon

[Indira Aramandla]

People I have a problem that I have the NFS daemons running on my K360 10.20 production server with autoraid. I have no documentation as to why its running . Can anyone suggest how I should investigate NFS's usage without disabling it (in case it's actually being used by critical processes) ?

[Michael Tully]

Hi,

By default the NFS daemons run on your system, usually '4'. If you have NFS mounted file systems they are displayed like this:

systema:/export 8192000 6835160 1284632 84% /export
You may also have an entry in /etc/fstab if it
mounts automatically after a system boot.

If you are exporting and NFS mount point to another system, there will be in entry in /etc/exports

HTH
~Michael~

[Mr LAMARTA]

HI,


HPUX is by defauld NFS server and NFS client. So the NFS daemons are launched as soon as your system starts.
NFS configuration and startup is managed in the file called /etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf.
Note : all system startup scripts read variable in files located under /etc/rc.config.d.

in the file nfsconf you have to put NFS_SERVER=0 if you want to disable the nfsd launching.
if your node is neither an NFS client put NFS_CLIENT=0.


Bye.

[sven verhaegen · Accepted solution]

hello

this is very simple , as said indeed on standard nfsserver and nfsclient setting in /etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf could be on 1 , just set them to 0 to deactivate , to know if anything is exported on the machine as nfsserver just execute the command

exportfs

(make sure you are root)
it will tell you if you exported something)

to see if some client has mounted one of your filesystems , execute

showmount -a

if this is a nfsclient , to see if you mount anything from a server look in fstab for entries beginning with hostname:/xxx/xxx /xxx
that indicates it mounts as a client a filesystem from a remote host , also looking in SAm will show you any exports of mounted filesystems if you look at the NFS submenus

[Indira Aramandla]

Thank you. I've found a legacy setup from our production box to our development box which handles oracle export files, so I now know what actions I want to take regarding the NFS daemons.

Regards Adonia

[Indira Aramandla]

This thread owner Adonia has ended the contract. This thread has been closed.

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