nfssvc permission denied

ajacoutot · n00b Joined: 07 Nov 2002 Posts: 7 Location: Paris - France

Hi,

When starting nfs server with nfs init script (from nfs-utils), I get the
following message:

/etc/init.d/nfs start

[ok ] * Starting NFS statd...

[ ok ] * Starting NFS rquotad...

[ ok ] * Starting NFS daemon...
nfssvc: Permission denied
* Error starting NFS daemon

[ !! ]
* Starting NFS mountd...

The modules are correctly loaded:
nfsd 61136 0 (autoclean)
lockd 44080 0 (autoclean) [nfsd]
sunrpc 60796 0 (autoclean) [nfsd lockd]

This error is happening on all my Gentoo servers, whether the nfs is user-space
or kernel-space.

There's nothing in the logs except someting about the portmapper (in auth.log):
Oct 7 07:03:09 srv01 portmap[29402]: connect from 127.0.0.1 to set(nfs):
request from unprivileged port
Oct 7 07:03:09 srv01 portmap[21158]: connect from 127.0.0.1 to unset(nfs):
request from unprivileged port
Oct 7 07:04:40 srv01 portmap[1765]: connect from 127.0.0.1 to set(nfs): request
from unprivileged port

Portmap is running and I have nfs-utils-0.3.3-r1.

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

Not very familiar with NFS, and its been a while since I've used it. Anyone have an idea?

Also, for anyone that might have an idea, ajacoutot reported can't stat exported dir /home/.directory, which may or may not be related.
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mglauche · Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2002 10:51 pm Post subject:

check your permissions in the nfs server dir (/var/lib/nfs/). Another reason could be tcp-wrappers, do you have any special hosts.deny or something like this ? I use nfs fairly extensive and i remember i had a simmilar problem once on redhat some time ago, which was some strange permission problem ...

ajacoutot · n00b Joined: 07 Nov 2002 Posts: 7 Location: Paris - France

I don't see any pbm in /var/lib/nfs/ (root owns everything).
As for tcpwrappers, I didn't put anything special in host.deny not host.allow.
The strange thing is that it works, but only after restarting nfs like 7 or 8 times.

Messiah · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 30 Apr 2002 Posts: 139

I do have the same problems now. Is it possible that it is related to grsecurity somehow? I cannot test, because this server is being used extensively by me.

ajacoutot · n00b Joined: 07 Nov 2002 Posts: 7 Location: Paris - France

grsecurity... Wow... I never though of that...
Well, I'll try to install an nfs server on a test box without grsecurity and see if it makes any difference.