[Lancaster] Info' re 'portmap'

[Ken Hough]

Martyn,

Thanks for response. Will look into this soon. Have still to discover 
documentation on how portmap works. Max gave me a ref to the Mandrake 
site, but haven't yet followed this up.

Meanwhile, I took the easy way out and did a system re-install. This was 
straightforward as I now keep /home is on a separate partition. A simple 
mod to fstab was then all that was needed to include my original /home 
partition. I guess that a separate backup of /etc would be usefull.

BTW, I checked out the PII box that died on me. The PSU is duff! Have 
returned the box to the Folly.

Ken Hough

Martyn Welch wrote:

> 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
>
>