[Lancaster] Info' re 'portmap'

[Martyn Welch]

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Is it set to start for the runlevel that the computer starts in?

If it is, check the init script that starts it to see what it does (some bash 
knowlwdge required) and check that it operates correctly (try "/etc/portmap 
start" as root).

Have you installed/altered a firewall that could be blocking the required 
ports?

Is the NFS file locking daemon running (think this is rpc, mandrake has a 
second init script called "nfslock" that also needs to be running.

Martyn

- ------ Original message ------
On Monday 06 Sep 2004 10:58, Ken Hough wrote:

> Can anybody help me with a problem relating to 'portmap'. One of my
> boxes has suddenly screwed
> up wrt NFS and I've traced the problem to 'portmap' not now working.
>
> Previously, 'portmap' started up on boot and NFS was made available via
> '/etc/init.d/nfsserver'.
> Now the latter not too surprisingly, just hangs up. I don't believe that
> I did anything to
> change the setup.
>
> I can start portmap directly in debug (non-deamon?) mode by
> '/sbin/portmap -d' which then allows
> /etc/init.d/nfsserver' to start as normal.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Can anybody point me in the direction of documentation relating to
> portmap? The general comment
> is that 'portmap' just works which is not now my experience.
>
> Ken Hough
>
>
>
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Martyn Welch (welchm at comp.lancs.ac.uk)

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