[NTLUG:Discuss] Basic NFS question

[Christopher Browne]

On Wed, 09 Aug 2000 21:57:10 CDT, the world broke into rejoicing as
"Alex D. Coker" <adcoker at leap4linux.com>  said:
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> Christopher Browne wrote:
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> > Is it correct to assume that there _is_ an nfsd?  It is possible that
> > it might be using the kernel NFS implementation, in which case things
> > might be a tad different...
> >
> > I'd suggest that you restart NFS services "from scratch;" this likely
> > involves heading to /etc/rc.d/init.d, or something fairly similar
> > in name to that, and doing something like:
> >   "./nfsd restart"
> > for whatever services you see in the init area that are relevant.
> >
> 
> This may indeed be the situation. I looked in /etc/rc.d/init.d and found nfs,
 but
> not nfsd. Does that mean that it's a kernel NFS? Either way, it still isn't
> working. I checked and rpc.portmap is running. rpc.nfsd was not, so I started
 the
> daemon.

That sounds like it should have been helpful; do a "ps aex | grep nfsd"
to see if it's really alive.

> When I issue the mount command, here's how it replys...
> 
> mount mtsinai:/mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
> mount: RPC: Program not registered.

Hmmm...  Suspiciously familiar...

Is it possible that your /etc/hosts.deny and /etc/hosts.allow are mis-set?

> My objective: I have a unit without a CD, I need to install software from a C
D, so
> I'm attempting to serve the CD to the unit without. Seemed like an appropriat
e
> thing to do.

Not inappropriate...

> > I'm sure that COAS provides a way to ask to restart daemons; you
> > might want to make yourself a little familiar with it...
> 
> I'm still in the learning curve on COAS, maybe I should compile linuxconf ins
tead.

If you want to do this sort of thing, look at WebMin instead; it looks
to be the replacement for COAS.  Apparently the ambitious ideas for COAS
were a bit too ambitious, and they are having to do the "throw the first
attempt away" thing.

Webmin _actually is_ modular, unlike the other schemes, and there
are a remarkable number of modules available.
<http://www.webmin.com/webmin/>
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