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Hi Waldenio, >Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 11:41:15 -0300 >From: Waldenio Almeida <address@hidden> >Organization: INPE/CPTEC >To: Steve Emmerson <address@hidden> >Subject: Re: 20050513: RPC and Portmapper on LDM The above message contained the following: > Yes, you are right that the LDM is running fine. > But these errors are annoying, because they fill > up the ldm logfiles. I don't understand. An LDM server process only registers with the portmapper once, so such warning messages should not fill up the logfile. > I searched about the portmapper for FreeBSD 5.3, > looks like in FreeBSD 5.X the portmapper was replaced > by rpcbind. It is active on my system. That's interesting. The rpcbind(1) process should use the well-known portmapper port, 111. But the LDM log messages indicate that the LDM couldn't register with a process using that port. What is the output from the following command: rpcinfo -p It should indicate that a portmapper (of some type) is running on port 111, e.g., $ rpcinfo -p program vers proto port service 100000 4 tcp 111 rpcbind 100000 3 tcp 111 rpcbind 100000 2 tcp 111 rpcbind 100000 4 udp 111 rpcbind 100000 3 udp 111 rpcbind 100000 2 udp 111 rpcbind 100021 1 udp 4045 nlockmgr 100021 2 udp 4045 nlockmgr 100021 3 udp 4045 nlockmgr 100021 4 udp 4045 nlockmgr 100021 1 tcp 4045 nlockmgr 100021 2 tcp 4045 nlockmgr 100021 3 tcp 4045 nlockmgr 100021 4 tcp 4045 nlockmgr 100024 1 udp 32772 status 100024 1 tcp 32771 status 100133 1 udp 32772 100133 1 tcp 32771 1289637086 5 tcp 32781 1289637086 1 tcp 32781 > Are the LDM's programs searching for the "portmapper" > string ? No. The LDM server doesn't care what the portmapper process is called. Only that it uses port 111 and works correctly. > Another question: is better send these discussions > to the forum on Gforce site ? - This site is becaming > very interesting... Your choice. :-) > Regards, > waldenio. Regards, Steve Emmerson