[ale] Q: how do I start NFS exports at boot in RH-7.*

[John Mills]

Amarendra -

Thanks for your help.

On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Amarendra Godbole (Intl Vendor) wrote:

> >     John> [how do I] start this service off, and stop it automagically
> >     John> at shutdown?


> Do the following:
> > cd /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/
> mv K20nfs S20nfs

By now I'm a lazy fellow and just used 'chkconfig'

> rc3.d is the directory which contains symlinks to the scripts that will
> be started when the machine boots into runlevel 3. In this directory,
> you will find many files starting with K or S followed by a number
> followed by the service name. All those services whose file names start
> with K won't be started when the machine boots, while those with S will
> be started when the machine boots. So, just move the file which has
> `nfs' in its name (see above). The next reboot will start all the NFS
> daemons.

Thanks for the background, too.

 - John Mills


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