NFS: Port Mapper Failure

[Hsin-Yu Sidney Li]

Jim (jim at sherwood.mv.com) wrote:

> 
> I am trying to NFS to export filesystems.  I have been able to mount
> filesystems exported from an AIX machine to the LINUX machine with no
> trouble.  However, in trying to get the LINUX portmapper started and
> export LINUX file stsems, I get the following message:
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Starting daemons: syslogd klogd/etc/rc.d/rc.inet2: Start: command not
                                                     ^^^^^
> found
>  portmap inetd lpd mountd nfsd pcnfsd bwnfsdclntudp_create: RPC: Port
> mapper failure - RPC: Unable to send

The problem is the comment line in Jim's rc.inetd2 which is missing
the "#" character.  In other words, the init thinks that the line 

	Start the SUN RPC Portmapper.

is a command, and is complaining that it can't find the command
"Start".  Just add a "#" at the beginning of the line to fix it.

> 
> I would appreciate any help.  Thanks,  Jim
> 
> my rc.inetd2 file is:
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> #! /bin/sh
> #

.... (intermediate stuff deleted) ......

> fi
> 
> Start the SUN RPC Portmapper.
  ^^^^^
> if [ -f ${NET}/rpc.portmap ]
> then
>  echo -n " portmap"
>  ${NET}/rpc.portmap
> fi

> 
> Jim
> jim at sherwood.mv.com (alias for sherwood-ji at jade.mv.net)
> jas at enterprise.uml.edu (my identity at work)

Hope this helps.

Sidney Li

Polaroid Corp.
Cambridge, MA
lih at polaroid.com