Here's a question for you... which package owns /usr/bin/rcpinfo on your box? A Woody install of mine doesn't have it, despite having netkit-inetd installed. Now, inetd's init, installed from this package, depends on that executable, but there's no dependency to ensure that it gets installed.
You will get the message if the binary isn't there as well as when the portmapper is actually dead. I've been *about* to report it as a bug for days but keep getting sidetracked. It's no problem on my box... I don't have any RPC services anyway. :) The web engine says that rpcinfo is part of netbase on Potato, and netkit-rpc on Woody. Why netkit-inetd doesn't have a dependency on netkit-rpc is beyond me. ----- Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.moonkingdom.net/mwilson -----Original Message----- From: Neil Darlow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 2:16 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: inetd startup warns portmapper not running? Hi, My potato system has started warning that portmapper isn't running during the execution of /etc/init.d/inetd at boot. I've checked that portmap is indeed running and I've even manually executed the logic that leads to this message. After boot it doesn't match the failing condition (rpcinfo returning non-zero). The RPC services are working. I can talk between virtual consoles. All I've done recently is install security updates and packages from the official CD-ROMS (2.2 r0). Does anyone have any idea as to why this is happening? TIA, Neil Darlow. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
