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I am using RHEL5.5. I wanted to shutdown nfs services in order to install and run a package. The installation itself tried shutting down the service and it failed.

It keeps saying "Shutting down nfs services [Failed]".

What is the problem here and how to shut it down?

user3401287
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  • `/usr/sbin/exportfs -v` will show what's exported. `/usr/sbin/exportfs -au` will stop sharing whatever is exported. Good luck. Just try this command first before stopping the service. – alvits Mar 17 '14 at 19:57

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You can try manually shutting down the service using the command 

service nfs stop

and then try installing the package again.

Guna
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As you said it is failing because of the nfs init script checking the number of lines in the exportfs and your /etc/export file empty, do the following

  1. navigate to /etc/rc.d/init.d/
  2. back up the nfs script (you can copy it to a different dir and rename it to nfs.bk)

  3. find the following section in the script:

    Do it the last so that clients can still access the server when the server is running.

    cnt=/usr/sbin/exportfs -v | /usr/bin/wc -l

    if [ $cnt = 0 ]; then

    action $"Shutting down NFS services: " /usr/sbin/exportfs -au

    else

    action $"Shutting down NFS services: " /bin/false

    fi

The bold section indicate that the if statement check whether exportfs -v has more than 0 lines. If you run this yourself you will find out that it actually has 0 lines which cause the script to fail. So change [ $cnt -gt 0 ] to [ $cnt = 0 ] and everything will work.

Take extra precautions when changing system scripts. Make sure you back the nfs script first and test it by running the following:

service nfs stop

DO NOT REBOOT so it case something doesn't work you can always restore the original nfs scritp.

Guna
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