From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 11 2:15:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dart.sr.se (dart.SR.SE [193.12.91.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3CB615046 for ; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 02:15:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gunnar@pluto.sr.se) Received: from honken.sr.se ([134.25.128.27]) by dart.sr.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA16901; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 11:14:26 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from pluto.sr.se (pluto.SR.SE [134.25.193.91]) by honken.sr.se (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA02507; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 11:14:25 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from gunnar@localhost) by pluto.sr.se (8.9.3/8.9.1) id LAA99994; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 11:14:25 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from gunnar) Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 11:14:25 +0200 From: Gunnar Flygt To: Greg Lewis Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: portmap, rpc.statd and SNMP Message-ID: <19990811111425.A99874@sr.se> Reply-To: Gunnar Flygt References: <19990811092756.A99338@sr.se> <199908110902.SAA82971@ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: <199908110902.SAA82971@ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au>; from Greg Lewis on Wed, Aug 11, 1999 at 06:32:38PM +0930 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Aug 11, 1999 at 06:32:38PM +0930, Greg Lewis wrote: > > 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... I was only referring to the person telling me this in the prevoius answer. If I could do it, then there's no problem. > > > 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 Then it starts running, but I still could not get anything from scotty trying to get system load. two minutes later: BUT NOW all of a sudden when I try it again, I got scotty (or rather tkined) to display the system load. So now everything is upp and running as I wanted. Maybe it just wanted me to fiddle around a little and not take anything for granted ;-) -- __o regards, Gunnar ---_ \<,_ email: flygt@sr.se ---- (_)/ (_) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message