System Administration Guide, Volume 3

How to Restart NFS Services

  1. Become superuser.

  2. To enable daemons without rebooting, type the following commands.


# /etc/init.d/nfs.server stop
# /etc/init.d/nfs.server start

This stops the daemons and restarts them, if there is an entry in /etc/dfs/dfstab.