Sorry to keep posting this to the list but I have spent quite some time trying to figure out just what went wrong. My computer had been up for three weeks so I decided to reboot since there seemed to be little traffic. Upon reboot nfs.mountd and nfs.nsfd did not boot although portmap seemed to start fine. The command ps -xa does not show portmap starting ? Without portmap the postgres deamon postmaster complains and will not start. All of this is stopping my 'hobby' project, a JAVA gui frontend for a postgresql database. The database will coordinate several independent databases such that a department has an idea of what chemicals, vectors, strains, ... another department has and need not purchase. Should I unistall portmap, reinstall portmap - reboot and pray ;} At first portmap seemed to run well booting atleast chronologically correct but still no rpc.mountd rpd.nfsd on boot. When I type showmount I get the following mount clntudp_create:RPC:portmap failure. Futhermore from within tksysv when I try to execute NFS I get the following on the stack trace Cannot register service: RPC: Unable to receive; errno = Connection refused Cannot register service: RPC: Unable to receive; errno = Connection refused while executing "close $f" (procedure "runcom" line 28) invoked from within "runcom start" invoked from within ".executeit.start invoke" ("uplevel" body line 1) invoked from within "uplevel #0 [list $w invoke]" (procedure "tkButtonUp" line 8) invoked from within "tkButtonUp .executeit.start" (command bound to event)Cannot register service: RPC: Unable to receive; errno = Connection refused Cannot register service: RPC: Unable to receive; errno = Connection refused while executing "close $f" (procedure "runcom" line 28) invoked from within "runcom start" invoked from within -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips /mailing-lists To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.