On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, at 03:53  am, kpneal@pobox.com wrote:
> The portmap program is gone, replaced by rpcbind.

I see. Thanks!

>> Uncomment those lines in inetd.conf:
>> rstatd/1-3      dgram   rpc/udp wait:100 nobody:kmem
>> /usr/libexec/rpc.rstatd rpc.rstatd
>> rusersd/2-3     dgram   rpc/udp wait:100 nobody
>> /usr/libexec/rpc.rusersd rpc.rusersd
>
> What are these for?
>
> My NFS servers seem OK without rusersd running or runnable by inetd.
> I thought rstatd was only used as a client for 'rup', so isn't needed
> for an NFS server.

Hmm... istr I had some problems without them, but it's also possible
that I just enabled them because the handbook says so.
I'll try without them tomorrow (err... today, actually. Must sleep).

//joelw