George Bingham wrote: > > Erik, > > I got it to load portmap, but only with a kludge, I'm sure there is a > better way to do it, > but in /etc/rcS.d directory, there is a file called S45mountnfs.sh, (it may > not be S45 on your system) and in that file is where it will mount remote > file systems if there are any in /etc/fstab. > > If there are remote file systems in /etc/fstab, then it'll start > 'portmap' first, and then mount them. If there are not nfs entries in the > /etc/fstab, then it doesn't do anything, and portmap never gets started. (At > least, I couldn't find anything else that'd start portmap during the boot > process). > > So, I just doctored that file so that 'PORTMAP=yes' is set near the > beginning, instead of 'PORTMAP=no' and then even though it doesn't find any > remote file systems to mount, it'll start portmap anyway. > > Of course, if you want to just mount some remote directory, set that up > in your /etc/fstab and at your next reboot it'll be launching portmap for > you anyway. > > Others on this list, please let me know if I'm seriously mucking > anything up, it's just that portmap seems to be needed by nfsd, but wasn't > being loaded anywhere but in the above file. > > HTH, > > George
Hi George, This probably works OK, but I would just make S40portmap a link to /etc/init.d/portmap to start te portmapper. BTW, no need to reboor, just type /etc/init.d/portmap start to start it. HTH, Erik (another) -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Erik C.J. Laan elaan at dds.nl Please reply below the message, please cut unrelevant pieces from a reply. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
