On Thu, 23 Oct 1997, Rob MacWilliams wrote: > I just put an older copy of rpc.portmap back onto this system and everything > seems to be fine > now. dpkg -S /usr/sbin/rpc.portmap returns netbase, so I think I found some > of the problem. > The new netbase doesn't have rpc.portmap, only portmap, and dselect deleted > the older > version :-). > > This looks like a case for a bug report, netbase should either supply > rpc.portmap or > fix the init.d script not to call it. Am I out to lunch? I hope so, because > this could be > serious.
I took a lookat it. The problem is not with netbase, but with xinetd. The /etc/init.d/netbase script is overwritten by the xinetd package and does nothing if xinetd is installed. The /etc/init.d/xinetd script looks for /usr/sbin/rpc.portmap, which is not in the netbase package. Instead, there is /usr/sbin/portmap, which has the same functionality. The change occurred with netbase_2.15-1, according to the changelog. I really think this is a bug in the xinetd package. IMHO, there should come a new xinetd package which knows about /usr/sbin/portmap. Probably it should depend on netbase (>= 2.15-1). Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
