[8401] in Athena Bugs
rt 7.3P: /etc/rc
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Mon Oct 14 16:45:06 1991
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 91 16:45:54 -0400
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU
System name: du-courage
Type and version: RTPC-ROMPC 7.3P
Display type: apa16
What were you trying to do?
Use my workstation as an NFS server.
What's wrong:
/etc/rc starts up portmap in the background and then
immediately starts up rpcd in the background. Apparently,
sometimes rpcd tries to register its ports with portmap before
portmap has finished initializing and failed, because
subsequent mount requests fail (rpc.mountd does not get
started) until I kill and restart rpcd.
What should have happened:
Portmap should be invoked with "/etc/portmap" instead of
"/etc/portmap &" so that it finishes starting before rpcd is
started. Either that, or these four lines:
echo -n "portmapper..." >/dev/console
/etc/portmap &
echo -n "rpcd..." >/dev/console
/etc/rpcd &
should be changed to:
echo -n "portmapper...rpcd..." >/dev/console
(/etc/portmap; /etc/rpcd) &
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
/etc/rc.
jik
