Getting "pidof[29146]: invalid options on command line!" error while checking nfs service status

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Issue

  • Getting "pidof[29146]: invalid options on command line!" error while checking nfs service status
[root@localhost ~]# service nfs status
rpc.mountd (pid 3864) is running...
pidof: invalid options on command line!

pidof: invalid options on command line!

-l is stopped
  • The expected output is:
[root@localhost ~]# service nfs status
rpc.mountd (pid 22049) is running...
nfsd (pid 22046 22045 22044 22043 22042 22041 22040 22039) is running...
rpc.rquotad (pid 22020) is running...

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • nfs-utils-1.0.9-71.el5
  • initscripts-8.45.45-1.el5

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