strange NFS status message

[bill perkins]

Mike wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 07:11 -0800, Mike wrote:
>   
>> can't get NFS working on FC5, have tried /etc/exports and
>> system-config-nfs. When I run /sbin/service nfs status, I get:
>>
>> Shutting down NFS mountd: rpc.mountd (pid 4612) is running...
>> nfsd (pid 4609 4608 4607 4606 4605 4604 4603 4600) is running...
>> rpc.rquotad (pid 4596) is running...
>>
>> Yup, I've tried stops and starts; SELinux settings make no difference
>> (and I don't think there's any relationship there). I see nothing
>> related in /var/log/messages
>>
>> What am I missing? Where else should I look?
>>     
>
> On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 11:03 -0500, Tom Spec wrote: 
>   
>> Is portmap running?
>>
>> service portmap status
>>
>> If it isn't...
>>
>> chkconfig portmap on
>> service portmap start
>>
>>     
> Portmap is running. Strangely enough, when I stop NFS, I get a similarly strange result:
> $ sudo /sbin/service nfs stop
> $ sudo /sbin/service nfs status
> Shutting down NFS mountd: rpc.mountd is stopped
> nfsd is stopped
> rpc.rquotad is stopped
>
> As if rpc.mountd is stuck in some strange cycle.
>
>   
It comes from /etc/rc.d/init.d/nfs, looks like somebody was cutting and 
pasting and forgot to change one of the messages :-)

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