AIX - SRC AND DAEMONS

AIX - SRC AND DAEMONS

Group of subsystems called daemons, using src command we can perform the following activities with subsystems and daemons.

1. Start daemon
2. List daemon
3. stop daemon
4. refresh (restart) daemon

AIX - Start daemon

Using srcstart command we can start the daemon.Actually nfs daemon has 5 subsystems (services), when you configured nfs in server, that 5 subsystems are always start state. If one subsystem is not working properly or not started, then the nfs is not working properly.

Nfs daemons:

Server: 1. nfsd, 2. rpc.mountd

Client: 3.biod, 4. rpc.statd, 5. rpc.lockd

If clients are not able to access the network file system from the server, that time you have to start or restart the nfsd and rpc.mountd subsystems.

#startsrc –s nfsd
#startsrc –s rpc.mountd

Flag –s is mentioned for single, because we are starting single nfsd subsystem

If we want start complete nfs daemons using –g flag

#startsrc –g nfs
Nfsd – started
Biod – started
Rpc.mountd – started
Rpc.lockd – started
Rpc.statd – started
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The above command is start all the 5 subsystems at the same time, but it is not recommended.
Like this we start single subsystem or group of subsystems.
AIX - Stop Daemon

Using stopsrc command we can stop the daemon,If we want to stop nfs daemon, then your command will be

#stopsrc –g nfs

Nfsd – stopped
Biod – stopped
Rpc.mountd – stopped
Rpc.lockd – stopped
Rpc.statd – stopped

Or we can stop single subsystem using –s flag

#stopsrc –s nfsd
Nfsd – stopped, like this we can stop the daemons