G'day again Today I noticed that I again couldn't connect to one FC6 box through NFS. service nfs restart gives: Shutting down NFS mountd: [ OK ] Shutting down NFS daemon: [ OK ] Shutting down NFS quotas: [ OK ] Shutting down NFS services: [ OK ] Starting NFS services: [FAILED] Starting NFS quotas: [ OK ] Starting NFS daemon: [ OK ] Starting NFS mountd: [ OK ] Thinking it may be linked to NFS issues a few ago, I did a yum update nfs* which updated nfs-utils-1.0.10-7.fc6.i386.rpm. However I still had the Starting NFS services [FAILED]. /var/log/messages shows: Apr 26 19:14:06 Ipex mountd[4346]: Caught signal 15, un-registering and exiting. Apr 26 19:14:11 Ipex kernel: nfsd: last server has exited Apr 26 19:14:11 Ipex kernel: nfsd: unexporting all filesystems Apr 26 19:14:11 Ipex kernel: RPC: failed to contact portmap (errno -5). Apr 26 19:14:12 Ipex exportfs[4529]: /etc/exports:1: syntax error: bad option list Apr 26 19:14:12 Ipex kernel: NFSD: Using /var/lib/nfs/v4recovery as the NFSv4 state recovery directory Apr 26 19:14:12 Ipex kernel: NFSD: starting 90-second grace period This syntax has worked up till now: [root@Ipex ~]# cat /etc/exports /pub Coral(rw, sync) Lockie(rw, sync) /usr/local/iso/zod Coral(rw, sync) Lockie(rw, sync) [root@Ipex ~]# uname -r 2.6.18-1.2868.fc6 Is the problem with portmap or /etc/exports? Any and all suggestions appreciated. Regards Simon Slater
