Starting up NFSv4 is fine, works perfectly. However, shutting down NFS misses out a couple of rpc processes, those include rpc.idmapd and rpc.statd. # /etc/init.d/nfs start * Exporting NFS directories ... [ ok ] * Starting NFS mountd ... [ ok ] * Starting NFS daemon ... [ ok ] * Starting NFS smnotify ... [ ok ] lithium ~ # ps ax|grep rpc 6174 ? S 0:00 [rpciod/0] 6175 ? S 0:00 [rpciod/1] 18344 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/rpc.mountd -p 32767 18375 pts/2 S+ 0:00 grep --colour=auto rpc 23902 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/rpc.idmapd 23956 ? Ss 0:00 /sbin/rpc.statd --no-notify -p 32765 -o 32766 portmap is running. # /etc/init.d/nfs stop * Stopping NFS mountd ... [ ok ] * Stopping NFS daemon ... [ ok ] * Unexporting NFS directories ... [ ok ] lithium ~ # ps ax|grep rpc 6174 ? S 0:00 [rpciod/0] 6175 ? S 0:00 [rpciod/1] 18463 pts/2 S+ 0:00 grep --colour=auto rpc 23902 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/rpc.idmapd 23956 ? Ss 0:00 /sbin/rpc.statd --no-notify -p 32765 -o 32766 This can be dealt with by checking /etc/coonf.d/nfs to see what processes needs shutting down as rpc.idmapd is optional. However, rpc.statd should be terminated anyway. portmap doesn't seem to get terminated either, perhaps /etc/init.d/nfs should call the other rpc.* scripts in /etc/init.d to ensure their termination on shutdown?
they're separate init.d scripts and not part of /etc/init.d/nfs, so you need to shutdown /etc/init.d/rpc.{statd,idmapd} too
But when I start /etc/init.d/nfs it starts these other processes, surely it would make sense to call these shutdown scripts for those as well?
that is not an nfs-utils specific issue in any way. any service with dependencies that are started implicitly will have this behavior. there are no plans to address this since it isnt a big problem and it isnt easy to divine user's intentions.
OK, I stand corrected. Reason I was asking is because I only run BFSv4 occasionally, and wanted an easy shutdown process but thank you for your attention.
if you want to get back to a known state, you could do `rc <softlevel>`. it'll shutdown all services not listed in there.
