Netbooting PPC FreeBSD and file locking

Sean Welch Sean_Welch at alum.wofford.org
Mon Mar 22 21:31:45 PST 2004


inittab?  There doesn't seem to be any such animal in the
FreeBSD world...

Sean

On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 10:27:16PM -0700, James Sarrett wrote:
> hmm... maybe check inittab?  i dont' have an fBSD machine up at the 
> moment to check
> 
> -James
> On Monday, March 22, 2004, at 10:24  PM, Sean Welch wrote:
> 
> >Well, I just copied the entries I have on the server (which
> >seem to set things up just fine).  Is there any way to guarantee
> >it starts first other than order in rc.conf?  It is listed
> >first, but the system sure acts as though rpcbind isn't starting
> >first...
> >
> >Sean
> >
> >On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 10:16:39PM -0700, James Sarrett wrote:
> >>really quick, doublecheck to make sure rpcbind starts first
> >>
> >>-James
> >>On Monday, March 22, 2004, at 10:10  PM, Sean Welch wrote:
> >>
> >>>Well, I just figured it out -- sort of.
> >>>
> >>>Looks like not only do I have to run rpcbind, rpc.statd,
> >>>and rpc.lockd on the server I must run all three on the
> >>>client as well.
> >>>
> >>>Suddenly passwd and adduser work just fine!  :-)
> >>>
> >>>Now for the "sort of" statement.
> >>>
> >>>I added the necessary entries into the rc.conf of the
> >>>exported filesystem but it failed to start up the
> >>>services.  I didn't see any mention of rpcbind in the
> >>>boot messages but I did see this:
> >>>
> >>>rpc.statd: svc_tp_create: Could not register prog 100024 vers 1 on 
> >>>udp6
> >>>rpc.statd: svc_tp_create: Could not register prog 100024 vers 1 on 
> >>>udp
> >>>rpc.statd: cannot create udp service
> >>>Starting lockd.
> >>>rpc.locd: unable to register (NLM_PROG, NLM_SM, udp)
> >>>
> >>>Also, I noticed that when the system is mounting
> >>>filesystems it complains that the filesystem is read
> >>>only and so creates a memory disk for /var !!  No
> >>>wonder I don't get the systems messages showing up in
> >>>/var/log !
> >>>
> >>>Progress!  Now if I can just figure these things out...
> >>>
> >>>;-)
> >>>
> >>>Sean
> >>>
> >>>_______________________________________________
> >>>freebsd-ppc at freebsd.org mailing list
> >>>http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ppc
> >>>To unsubscribe, send any mail to 
> >>>"freebsd-ppc-unsubscribe at freebsd.org"
> >>>
> >>
> >>--------------------------------------------
> >>"Never trust a man who can count to 1024 on his fingers"
> >>--------------------------------------------
> >>
> >>
> 
> --------------------------------------------
> "Never trust a man who can count to 1024 on his fingers"
> --------------------------------------------
> 


More information about the freebsd-ppc mailing list