Hi trickykid, i just discovered that in order for portmap to run at bootup, rc.conf needs to be configured. is this correct ? pls advise.

portmap_enable=YES" in rc.conf

Regards
Daniel

This has nothing to do with the error your getting in which you have not once read my actual replies to try what I've suggested. Your missing a library most likely, that's your issue and you need to either find the proper library its complaining about and or install the correct package that includes that library.

Hi, i did yum update , isn't that it can solve dependencies problem ? what other ways i can solve it without finding one by one missing library ?

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Daniel

I never told you to run yum as trying to update your system is not going to fix any dependency problems a particular package or service may have. Your going to have to search for that library that is in your error you get when starting portmap and either first find out if its on your system and if its not, then your going to look for it from a site like www.google.com/linux or the like.. your not listening to what I'm telling you to do.. the answer is in front of you right under your nose but you keep beating around the bush..

Like I said.. I'm not going to give you a direct answer. Doing it this way is going to teach you how to use the available resources for something that is very basic and simple. Trust me, this is as basic as it gets when dealing with Linux and RPM's.

So after doing a google search myself on the first library you mentioned where it was complaining of not having libnol.so.1.. that library brings up nothing..

What is the exact error message you get when attempting to start portmap? Exact error message? The other error message and lib you refer to deals with glibc which I hope you have installed or you'll have more problems than just portmap.

Exact error message is "Starting portmap: portmap: error while loading shared libraries: libnsl.so.1: cannot open shared object file: Permission denied" . What do you mean by installing the package of the library earlier ? The libnsl library is in my system so like what u say earlier it should be missing out some dependencies. But which one ? What is glibc ? i do not see any in service. Thanks

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Daniel

Post the output of:

rpm -qa | grep glibc

And what distro is this? Is it really Redhat 9 like your profile says? My guess is you have a portmap version that was compiled against a different glibc version and is why your getting this error.

Output of this as well please:

rpm -qa | grep portmap

Hi, my distro is FC3. Havent updated my profile yet. below are the outputs.
[root@mp420 ~]# rpm -qa | grep glibc
glibc-kernheaders-2.4-9.1.87
glibc-headers-2.3.5-0.fc3.1
glibc-devel-2.3.5-0.fc3.1
glibc-utils-2.3.5-0.fc3.1
glibc-common-2.3.5-0.fc3.1
glibc-2.3.5-0.fc3.1

[root@mp420 ~]# rpm -qa | grep portmap
portmap-4.0-63
portmap-debuginfo-4.0-63

Fyi, earlier i did download one portmap source rpm , trying to recompile. I'm not sure is it because of this or not. when i disable the portmap service , all the error gone including nfs. Only one error left in startup, the syslog library (libc.co.1) also have permission denied in startup. Only this error if i have not enable the portmap.

[root@mp420 i386]# rpm -ivh portmap-4.0-63.i386.rpm
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
package portmap-4.0-63 is already installed
file /sbin/portmap from install of portmap-4.0-63 conflicts with file from package portmap-4.0-63
file /usr/sbin/pmap_dump from install of portmap-4.0-63 conflicts with file from package portmap-4.0-63
file /usr/sbin/pmap_set from install of portmap-4.0-63 conflicts with file from package portmap-4.0-63

Regards
Daniel