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From: j@uriah.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: [Q:386BSD] nsfd: Can't Register with Portmap
Date: 29 Jul 1994 17:29:32 +0200
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jmonroy@netcom.com (Jesus Monroy Jr) writes:

>	Can't register with portmap.

Ist the portmapper running?

j@julia 108% ps -ax
  PID TT  STAT      TIME COMMAND
    0 ??  DLs    0:41.34  (swapper)
    1 ??  IWs    0:10.93 init --
    2 ??  DL    12:19.64  (pagedaemon)
    3 ??  DL     1:08.98  (update)
   33 ??  Ss     0:16.49 syslogd
   45 ??  IWs    0:18.81 cron
   48 ??  IWs    0:04.06 portmap		<<<---

from /etc/rc:

# Portmapper should always be run, to provide RPC services for inetd.
if [ -x /usr/sbin/portmap ]; then
        echo -n ' portmap';             portmap
fi


Don't you think it's time to upgrade to an up-to-date system, Jesus? ;-)
-- 
cheers, J"org                             work:    joerg_wunsch@tcd-dresden.de
                                          private:   joerg_wunsch@uriah.sax.de
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        Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle.