On Tue Aug 22 2000 at 10:55, "SUCHIT REIKHY" wrote:
> I am able to boot up my system given the tomsrtbt boot image. It goes like a
> breeze, no hassles!
> What i further need to do is to start my application which essentially is an
> RPC server. I tried to accomplish this but wasn't quite successful. This is
> what I had done.
portmapper gives basic RPC port services management, but what are
you trying to do with it? NFS? NIS? ...
> I had the files /etc/hosts, /etc/hosts.allow, /etc/rpc in my filesystem. I
> tried running portmap, did not get any errors. Doing a 'rpcinfo -p' shows
> that port 111 is being used. I try runnning my server, (of which i only have
> an executable) and it gives RPC Error(not quite intuitive).
Sounds like an incompatability between the portmapper and the RPC
server you are trying to run.
> At this point my loopback interface is configured, though my ethernet
> interface isn't up.
That's ok. As long as these daemons are listening to a network
socket, you should be able to get it to work. Even localhost.
> Can anyone point out, where am i messing it up? I have to admit that I don't
> have a very lucid understanding of what all is required to get my RPC
> running, so all suggestions would be very helpful.
It looks like it won't work in a tomsrtbt environment.
> Thanks
> Suchit
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Cheers
Tony
