From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 6 18:50:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA15839 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 18:50:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA15833 for ; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 18:50:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) id LAA25695; Tue, 7 Oct 1997 11:19:55 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19971007111955.42685@lemis.com> Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 11:19:55 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: spork Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NFS on/off switch References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: ; from spork on Mon, Oct 06, 1997 at 01:28:06PM -0400 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8250 Fax: +61-8-8388-8250 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Fight-Spam-Now: http://www.cauce.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, Oct 06, 1997 at 01:28:06PM -0400, spork wrote: > Hi, > > I have a machine that is going to be acting as an NFS server on an > *occasional* basis. I've been trying to cobble together something to very > cleanly bring NFS up and down without rebooting. I basically followed the > rc scripts for the order, and tried killing everything in the reverse > order. Bringing it up doesn't seem to be a problem, but killing > everything off without coredumps is. Any suggestions on doing this? Why do you want to stop it? If you're not using it, it's not causing any problems. If you're concerned with remote systems mounting in that period, you just need to stop mountd. Greg