The original question is appended at the bottom of the mail.
Many thanks to
Brian O'Neill
Juan Gallego
Bertrand Hutin
that gave me a very quick answer, and suggested me to take look at the
portmap daemon.
The daemon was up and running, but I had the loopback interface
misconfigured (probably mountd uses it at startup trying to talk with
portmapd).
With the corret configuration of the loopback interface all is
working, now.
About the latter question (Linux admin mailing list?),
thanks to
Richard Bemrose (Yes, check out: RedHat axp-list, send "subscribe" to
axp-list-request_at_redhat.com. OK, I will do)
Peter Chapin (Have you tried comp.os.linux.misc? No, I haven't!)
Goodbye.
Alessandro
Here is my original question.
> Excuse me if it isn't a real Digital Unix...
> I cannot start nfs server daemon on a PC with Linux.
> When I try to type "/etc/rc.d/init.d/nfs start" , I got the answer:
> rpc.mountd Cannot register service: RPC: Timed out
> rpc.nfsd Cannot register service: RPC: Timed out
> and I can find in /var/log/messages the related lines:
> May 11 19:44:34 pcde01 nfsd[270]: unable to register (nfsd, 2, udp).
> May 11 19:44:24 pcde01 mountd[261]: unable to register (mountd, 1, udp).
> Can anybody suggest me any action to find a solution?
> Thank you.
>
> Alessandro
>
> P.S. is there a mailing list such ours for Linux administrators?
>
> bye
>
>
>
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>
> Alessandro Brunengo
> System and Network Administrator
> Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
> Via Dodecaneso, 33
> 16146 - Genova - ITALY
> tel. +39-10-3536317
> fax. +39-10-310461
>
>
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Alessandro Brunengo
System and Network Administrator
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
Via Dodecaneso, 33
16146 - Genova - ITALY
tel. +39-10-3536317
fax. +39-10-310461
Received on Tue May 19 1998 - 10:45:14 NZST