Redhat / RHEL / CentOS Linux: Start / Stop / Restart NFS Service [ server ]

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How do I start and stop the NFS service and/or server using the command prompt? How do I make sure NFS always stars automatically when system boots or restarts under RHEL based systems?

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:
  1. CentOS / Redhat: Setup NFS v4.0 File Server
  2. Debian / Ubuntu Linux: Setup NFSv4 File Server
  3. Mac Os X: Mount NFS Share / Set an NFS Client
  4. RHEL: How Do I Start and Stop NFS Service?
  5. How To Restart Linux NFS Server Properly When Network Become Unavailable
  6. Linux Iptables Allow NFS Clients to Access the NFS Server
  7. Debian / Ubuntu Linux Disable / Remove All NFS Services
  8. Linux: Tune NFS Performance
  9. Mount NFS file system over a slow and busy network
  10. Linux Track NFS Directory / Disk I/O Stats
  11. Linux Disable / Remove All NFS Services
  12. Linux: NFS4 mount Error reason given by server: No such file or directory
  13. Linux NFS Mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on fs2:/data3 Error And Solution
  14. CentOS / RHEL CacheFS: Speed Up Network File System (NFS) File Access
  15. Increase NFS Client Mount Point Security

Posted by: Vivek Gite

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  2. 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

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