Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > well, the thing is that /etc/init.d/portmap doesn't get run. symlinks to it > from within the rc.\.d directories do.
They're just symlinks to the files in /etc/init.d. The files in /etc/init.d *are* the ones actually being run. > i guess i could just blow away the > portmap script, and that might do it once and for all. but it's wierd how > the thing gets run but isn't mentioned in the rc directories. > > there was no symlink to /etc/init.d/portmap from /etc/rc2.d, and no mention > of portmap or rpc in /etc/inetd.conf > > a mystery... If you haven't done anything strange to your startup files, there should be a link somewhere. Keep looking. If you want to assure yourself that the portmap script is being run, put some echo statements at the beginning of the script (after the #!/bin/sh line) and see if they come up when you boot. Otherwise just put 'exit 0' there, as someone already said. You could also put 'echo $0' there, to print out how portmap is being called. That should tell you where the symlink is. > portmap is a wierd thing for debian to force on people. i notice it's in > the netbase package, which i'm not going to uninstall any time soon... Apparently portmap has been moved into its own package in Woody. Matthew
