Heinrich Rebehn said: > Hi, > > I have a problem with rpc.statd. We run our linux machines as diskless > clients, they mount their root fs via nfs from a server. For security > reasons i would like to export the root fs readonly. However, rpc.statd > will not run. It exits without an error message, but reports > > Sep 26 15:33:48 rpc.statd[680]: Version 1.0 Starting > Sep 26 15:33:53 rpc.statd[681]: unable to register (statd, 1, udp). > > via syslog.
is your /var/lib/nfs writable ? do any other rpc services start besides portmap? It may be a portmapper problem since it's saying it cannot register the service(which tells me that portmapper is having trouble). I also see that statd uses /var/lib/nfs(as above). you may want to look into re-configuring your root filesystems for read-only-friendly configuration. A while back someone pointed me to the BBLCD project which creates a bootable linux distro on a CD, it does a few hacks to the system to redirect files that need to be written to a ramdisk which is created at startup. It wouldn't be hard I think to adapt it to network booting. The BBLCD project is here: http://www.bablokb.de/bblcd/ nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
