A stupid cause of this error message (it happened to me): Check out your hosts.allow and .deny files if you've configured them. If all you have is: ALL:ALL in deny and ALL: LOCAL in allow, then NFS service won't work (I forgot and it happened to me...Duh!) *************************************************************************** Jerry Winegarden OIT/Technical Support Duke University Room 105 North Building Research Drive Durham, NC 27708 phone: (919)-660-6911 pager: (919)-970-4270 fax: (919)-681-0808 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www-jerry.oit.duke.edu *************************************************************************** On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Gordon Messmer wrote: > Nathan Smith wrote: > > On the off chance that my problem is simple enough, when trying to start > > /usr/sbin/rpc.nfsd I get the message nfssvc: Operation not permitted. > > I've RTFMd as much as I can, and can't figure out why this is happening. > > I can start the portmapper and rpc.mountd no problem. > > Occasionally, (I believe it happens when exporting submounts), nfsd > doesn't free it's socket when closing. In order to start nfsd again you > have to *REBOOT*. > > I've gone back to userland nfsd because of this problem. Also, I liked > the ability to export trees with submounts, which knfsd doesn't do > AFAICT. > > MSG > > > -- > To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" > as the Subject. > > -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
