From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 11 2: 1:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au (Ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.44.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B867C14FE9 for ; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 02:01:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from glewis@ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au) Received: (from glewis@localhost) by ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA82971; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 18:32:38 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from glewis) From: Greg Lewis Message-Id: <199908110902.SAA82971@ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: portmap, rpc.statd and SNMP In-Reply-To: <19990811092756.A99338@sr.se> from Gunnar Flygt at "Aug 11, 1999 09:27:56 am" To: Gunnar Flygt Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 18:32:38 +0930 (CST) Cc: FreeBSD Questions X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL56 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > If it cannot be started manually, how should I capture the output of the > portmap with the -d switch? What do you mean by "cannot be started manually". You are obviously typing a command -- so what is the result? However, this is probably insubstantial in the light of what follows... > Actually, when digging a little deeper into this I guess that portmap is > started allright. I get this: > > su-2.02# ps ax | grep portmap > 115 ?? Is 0:00.01 /usr/sbin/portmap > > So I guess it is a service started quite early in the process. So the > real problem is that rpc.statd isn't running in spite of what is said in > rc.conf Right, so I presume you tried "ps ax | grep rpc.statd" and didn't find anything running? What happens when you try and execute rpc.statd by hand (presumably as root), e.g. /usr/sbin/rpc.statd -- Greg Lewis glewis@trc.adelaide.edu.au Computing Officer +61 8 8303 5083 Teletraffic Research Centre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message