Smf managed service not starting

UNIX Solaris
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Hi Experts,

While playing with smf in my local system ( which is not in production ) i am unable to restart the service svc:/network/nfs/server:default . I tried starting it in different way, however unable to restart the same.

I was checking the dependency for that I disabled the service svc:/network/nfs/mapid:default

Then later I enable the above service and tried enabling the service

svc:/network/nfs/server:default

No luck :(.

Later I tried restoring the smf service by running the script available on the below path

/lib/svc/bin/ ./restore_repository and rebooted the system , still no success :confused:.

Please help and also suggest where I went wrong in the entire process .

Thanks

2

Did you configure the system to share some filesystems ?
nfs/server won't run if it has nothing to do.

3

Thanks bro,

I do not have any nfs file to share.

But is't it should start the services once I am trying to start manually

4

I guess its starts but quickly ends when detecting it has nothing to do.

5

if nothing is shared in /etc/dfs/dfstab the service won't start!

6

Thanks guys,

I have one more question .

Once I open /etc/dfs/dfstab i do not see any nfs file entry there, however once I run the command df �n , there are couple of nfs file system are visible.

How that�s possible.

Thanks again in anticipation

7

this are nfs shares from OTHER servers!

8

Please correct me if I am wrong in my understanding.

If I have any file system or resource which I am willing to share with other system, then those shareable resources are going to listed in dfstab?

9

right...

10

kind of...
if you want to share your local resources across the network, you only need to issue something like:

share  -F nfs  -o rw=users  -d "home dirs"  /export/home

if you want it to be persistent across a reboot to init state 3, you add it /etc/dfs/dfstab.

11

Are you "really" using any host to mount your shared filesystem remotely?
meaning, is it in the remote host's /etc/vfstab entry , eg..?

12

Hi Inc,

no i do not have any nfs entry in vfstab. I understood the issue and its working fine.

thanks to all of and special thank to jlliagre, pupp and DuckNuck2 for there help!