Stopping NFS + Portmap

[Mag0007]

I am trying to stop NFS and Portmap when the system starts up. What file or command should I look at?

stopsrc -s nfsd;
stopsrc -s portmap;

works fine, but will these settings take effect when I reboot the server?

 

[Breslau]

for nfs:

edit /etc/inittab comment out the line with rc.nfs

for portmap:

edit /etc/rc.tcpip there are a couple of lines in there about starting portmap.

for giggles, make sure /etc/exports doesn't exist.

the stopsrc commands won't carry across boots. you could of course use these commands in a local startup script. that would work as well....

 

[Mag0007]

Thanks! How do I update my initab without rebooting?

 

[p5wizard]

vi should do nicely, just put a colon character before the line with rc.nfs

edit /etc/inittab comment out the line with rc.nfs

HTH,

p5wizard

 

[JurgyMan]

Just a tip on editting inittab; I believe you must use ': ' (colon space) to comment out a line in inittab on aix... just a :blah:blah gets interpreted as a regular line with null first field.

JurgyMan

 

[Mag0007]

correct. thanks

Also, how do I refresh inittab without rebooting the server?

kill -HUP <pid of init> ?

would that work

 

[p5wizard]

telinit q

HTH,

p5wizard

 

[p5wizard]

But if you only commented out then rcnfs entry like so:

:rcnfs:23456789:wait:/etc/rc.nfs > /dev/console 2>&1 # Start NFS Daemons

then telinit q won't do a thing to NFS, because rc.nfs is only run once: inittab entry has 'wait' - so inittab runs the command once - when going multiuser (runlevel 2 to 9) and waits for it to complete before going to the next entry.

If you want to stop nfs without rebooting, run the command

nfs.clean



HTH,

p5wizard