portmapper/inetd confusion

[Rainer Dorsch <rainer@rai16.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>]

On one of our potato systems, I see

# /etc/init.d/inetd restart
Restarting internet superserver: inetd
WARNING: portmapper inactive - RPC services unavailable!
         (Commenting out the rpc services in inetd.conf will
         disable this message)

.

The WARNING is triggered by the rpc lines

walld/1         dgram   rpc/udp wait    nobody  /usr/sbin/tcpd  
/usr/sbin/rpc.rw
alld
rusersd/2-3     dgram   rpc/udp wait    nobody  /usr/sbin/tcpd  
/usr/sbin/rpc.ru
sersd


But I am wondering why this happens, because portmap _is_ running:

# ps uaxwww|grep portmap
daemon     916  0.0  0.1  1128  412 ?        S    19:49   0:00 /sbin/portmap
root       943  0.0  0.1  1108  408 pts/3    S    19:51   0:00 grep portmap

I found the problem, after observing that CVS pserver is not working. I am not 
sure, if this is related.


Thanks.

Rainer.





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