NFS failure at startup.

[Iain Stevenson]

It could be a feature.  Linux distributors are often wary of enabling rpc 
based services by default because of security issues.  If someone had not 
configured, for example, tcpwrappers they could be hacked nastily.

  Iain



--On Thursday, May 2, 2002 1:53 pm +0100 Martin Spenceley 
<martinws@mac.com> wrote:

> No portmap wasn't running, neither was netfs.
>
> Has they not started simply because I have a portable?
> Or is it a bug/feature?
>
>
> Martin
>
> On Thursday, May 2, 2002, at 12:04 PM, Iain Stevenson wrote:
>
>>
>> portmap is running?  Try /etc/rc.d/init.d/portmap restart
>>
>>  Iain
>>
>>
>>
>> --On Thursday, May 2, 2002 11:55 am +0100 Martin Spenceley
>> <martinws@mac.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I've been trying to setup my iBook to serve NFS filesystems on the
>>> network.
>>>
>>> It appears I'm getting the following error messages at boot up.
>>>
>>> May  2 00:53:54 linuxbook nfs: Starting NFS services:  succeeded
>>> May  2 00:53:54 linuxbook rpc.rquotad: Cannot register service: RPC:
>>> Unable to receive; errno = Connection refused May  2 00:53:54 linuxbook
>>> rpc.rquotad: rpc.rquotad: unable to register (RQUOTAPROG, RQUOTAVERS,
>>> udp). May  2 00:53:54 linuxbook nfs: rpc.rquotad startup failed
>>> May  2 00:53:54 linuxbook rpc.mountd: Cannot register service: RPC:
>>> Unable to receive; errno = Connection refused May  2 00:53:54 linuxbook
>>> nfs: rpc.mountd startup failed
>>> May  2 00:58:54 linuxbook rpc.nfsd: nfssvc: Input/output error
>>> May  2 00:58:54 linuxbook nfs: rpc.nfsd startup failed
>>>
>>> It appears the rpc service is not running prior to starting NFS but I
>>> cannot find where the rpc service would get started.
>>>
>>> (Why am I doing this, I hear you ask. Well I want to demonstrate a
>>> portable linux server (on my iBook) serving Windows NT, Mac OS X via my
>>> Powerbook! Using all the various network standards!
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Martin
>>>
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