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Gilbert Sebenste wrote: > > Anne, > > Thanks so much for your help. Exactly how did you solve this and restart > it? And how did you know it was the portmapper? > > Thanks! > > ******************************************************************************* > Gilbert Sebenste ******** > Internet: address@hidden (My opinions only!) ****** > Staff Meteorologist, Northern Illinois University **** > E-mail: address@hidden *** > web: http://weather.admin.niu.edu ** > Work phone: 815-753-5492 * > ******************************************************************************* Hi Gilbert, First, the wierd log entry, "couldn't register 300029 version 5", or whatever it was, caused us to try to check the port with 'rpcbind -p'. However, that would not succeed, which caused us to check /etc/hosts.allow and see that portmap was not allowed. Tom Yoksas had the root password, so we added portmap to /etc/hosts.allow. This simply aided is doing diagnositics. Then we did 'rpcbind -p' and saw that the port was being held by the ldm, but we could see that the ldm was not running. We were going to do simply 'rpcinfo -d' and free the port but when we went to do 'rpcinfo' again, the command didn't respond again. From this we knew there was a problem with the portmapper. That's what caused us to stop and restart it. We stopped and started the portmapper with '/etc/init.d/portmap stop' and '/etc/init.d/portmap start'. You have to be root to do that. I don't know what went wrong with the portmapper - I hope it doesn't happen again. You're very welcome! Anne -- *************************************************** Anne Wilson UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden P.O. Box 3000 Boulder, CO 80307 ---------------------------------------------------- Unidata WWW server http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ ****************************************************