You can use the following commands under RHEL based systems
Start / Stop / Restart portmap Service under RHEL
Type the following commands:
# /etc/init.d/portmap start
# /etc/init.d/portmap stop
# /etc/init.d/portmap restart
Start / Stop / Restart NFS Service under RHEL / CentOS Linux
Type the following commands:
# /etc/init.d/nfs start
# /etc/init.d/nfs stop
# /etc/init.d/nfs restart
Automatically Start the NFS Server
To start the NFS service automatically at the boot time, enter:
# ntsysv
Select Portmap and NFS and save the changes. ntsysv command is a simple interface for configuring runlevel services which are also configurable through chkconfig command.
This entry is 4 of 15 in the Linux / UNIX NFS File Server Tutorial series. Keep reading the rest of the series:
- CentOS / Redhat: Setup NFS v4.0 File Server
- Debian / Ubuntu Linux: Setup NFSv4 File Server
- Mac Os X: Mount NFS Share / Set an NFS Client
- RHEL: How Do I Start and Stop NFS Service?
- How To Restart Linux NFS Server Properly When Network Become Unavailable
- Linux Iptables Allow NFS Clients to Access the NFS Server
- Debian / Ubuntu Linux Disable / Remove All NFS Services
- Linux: Tune NFS Performance
- Mount NFS file system over a slow and busy network
- Linux Track NFS Directory / Disk I/O Stats
- Linux Disable / Remove All NFS Services
- Linux: NFS4 mount Error reason given by server: No such file or directory
- Linux NFS Mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on fs2:/data3 Error And Solution
- CentOS / RHEL CacheFS: Speed Up Network File System (NFS) File Access
- Increase NFS Client Mount Point Security
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what can cause a nfs service to stop or freeze
IF you’re using the package nfs-kernel-server you have to substitute nfs for nfs-kernel-server instead. So you’d type
# /etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server stop
instead
cheers
and for Portmap:-
sudo service portmap restart
(likely just a Debian thing)