I believe that not activiating these is a deliberate (and wise, IMHO)
action taken for security reasons.
It installs them so that you don't need to go back to the install disk
to get the packages, but lets you activate them only if you actualy plan
to use them. Why open ports that you don't even plan to use?
Hans Schneidhofer wrote:
>
> Am Son, 30 Apr 2000 schrieben Sie:
> > Hans Schneidhofer wrote:
>
> Hi Ron,
>
> seems, that you are right. Have installed now a furthermore Linux-Box for my
> daughter and have discovered the same behavior again. Have took a look in the
> taskmanager, and ... right, there was NO nfsd, RPC.mountd running. It was
> installed, sure, but not activated.
>
> There are some other failing things like : NO libstdc++libc6.1-1.so.2 und some
> more.
> So we, the linux-users have to take the destiny in our own hands and do a
> workaround. Think, thats a lot more better than cry in the wide air. So we
> should looking forward.
>
> Bye
> Hans Schneidhofer
>
> >
> > Mandrake 7.0-2 often fails to install the portmap and nfs-utils and
> > nfs-utils clients RPMs and neglects to put the nfs daemon in
> > runlevels 3 & 5 of ksysvinit. If the server has this problem it will
> > evidence your symptoms.
> >
> > Check and fix this on the server, reboot it, then look in the task
> > manager to make sure the nfsd, RPC.mountd, etc daemons are running.
> >
> > --
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Ron. [AU] - sent by Linux.
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