Control:; reassign -1 rpcbind This bug has been assigned to libc6 which no longer ships the rpcinfo program.
On 2006-03-26 15:04 +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > tags 353867 - patch > thanks > > On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 03:55:17PM +0100, Stephan Krempel wrote: >> - $PREFIX/bin/rpcinfo -u localhost nfs 3 >/dev/null 2>&1 || >> + $PREFIX/bin/rpcinfo -u localhost nfs 3 >/dev/null 2>&1 \ >> + /dev/console>&1 || > > This patch does not what you think it does. More specifically, it is > identical to > > $PREFIX/bin/rpcinfo -u localhost nfs 3 /dev/console >/dev/null 2>&1 > > as you cannot route arbitrary files around like that, only file descriptors. > rpcinfo naturally takes no "/dev/console" parameter, and thus exits with a > syntax error, which is sent to /dev/null. > > You might want to ask the libc6 people to add a "silent" option to rpcinfo, > or at least something that doesn't open /dev/console if that is indeed what's > happening. AFAICT there is no such option, so this bug might still be relevant. Cheers, Sven