[GLUG-tech] Re: NFS dog

[Chadley Wilson]

On Tuesday 31 August 2004 01:08, Heinz Meulke wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 12:57, Chadley Wilson wrote:
> > Greetings
> >
> > I urgently need some advise
> > My nfs server is failing to start
> > It has something to do with the exports file.
> > If the exports file is empty nfs starts.
> > If it has and entry it won't
> > I have restarted portmap and nfs several times.
> > I have also started nfs then exported the files with exportfs -r but
> > that also hangs.
> >
> > What can be done to find the root of this evil?
>
> check /var/log/messages
>
> nfs logs any error messages
>
> also check /var/log/dmesg
I am not getting any problems from my logs at all,

The strange thing here is that if I run "service named stop" then nfs works.

I manufacture PCs and you will be happy to know that I have already built 
approx 4000 systems loaded with FC1 / 2 Linux this year. To speed up the 
installations via the network I setup a dns server and a dhcp to assign IPs 
and host names to the computers. The problem I am faced with is possibly a 
config problem in my dhcp file. The server is not assigning the host names, I 
also can't use mac address statements because the PCs are always new. In 
other words I want the dhcp to assign an IP on a random basis, if for example 
the IP is 192.168.2.1 then make that PCs hostname station1.domainname.
If a PC is unplugged from the network then it must make that IP immediatley 
available again.

Here is my dhcpd.conf file could someone please give me a hint:

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ddns-update-style ad-hoc;
default-lease-time 30;         # 30 seconds
max-lease-time 7200;            # 2  hours

        option domain-name "teq.pinteq";
        option domain-name-servers 192.168.2.1;
        option broadcast-address 192.168.2.255;
        option routers 192.168.2.1;
        option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;

subnet 192.168.2.0 netmask 255.255.255.0
 {
  range 192.168.2.10 192.168.2.50;
 }
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