[SOLVED] rpcinfo missing from Slackware 14.0

sparkyhall · 10-02-2012, 01:11 PM

One of my scripts uses "rpcinfo" to check that my servers NFS is available. In Slackware 14.0 32bit this no longer works as "rpcinfo" does not exist, I can work around this. I'm just curious to know if "rpcinfo" has been removed deliberately or by accident?

zakame · 10-03-2012, 08:04 AM

It was in the previous glibc version. Grepping the ChangeLog.txt shows a lot of glibc revisions since then, but I'm not sure when /usr/sbin/rpcinfo disappeared. There's a mention on Feb 1 2012 about re-enabling NIS and RPC compile support though:

Code:

Wed Feb  1 17:18:07 CST 2012
l/glibc-2.14.1-i486-3.txz:  Rebuilt.
  Patched to provide compile support for NIS and RPC again.

allend · 10-03-2012, 10:27 AM

Just want to point out that in glibc-2.15, the rpcinfo command is no longer built.
From glibc-2.15/sunrpc/Makefile

Quote:

# We do not build rpcinfo anymore. It is not needed for a bootstrap
# and not wanted on complete systems.
# others := rpcinfo
# install-sbin := rpcinfo

The 'pmap_dump' command provides the equivalent information.

sparkyhall · 10-11-2012, 03:06 PM

Thanks for the replies, I'll use "pmap_dump" instead and mark this thread as solved.

jtsn · 10-11-2012, 11:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by allend

The 'pmap_dump' command provides the equivalent information.

pmap_dump is missing all the options and can't connect to other hosts.

wildwizard · 10-12-2012, 05:41 AM

I think this problems stems from glibc no longer having a maintained RPC code base.

The RPC library routines are now maintained in the TI-RPC library.
"portmap" is replaced by "rpcbind" which also has "rpcinfo" included