Very Computer

by **Stephen Tanto** » Sun, 21 Dec 1997 04:00:00

Ok, I've decided I want to do some RPC programming on Linux (I'm using
RedHat 4.2.) I recently did some work with BSD sockets in a
communications class at University. So, I picked up "Power Programming
with RPC" by John Bloomer which was suggested to me by one of my profs.
Now my problem is, I have an example from the book finally compiled but
whenever I try to run the server I get and error reporting thet the
service cannot be registered. After nosing around for a while I found
the rpcinfo utility. The message I get back from rpcinfo -p is
rpcinfo: can't contact portmapper: RPC Remote system error -
Connection refused

Anybody a little more experienced than me know whats going on? It
almost looks to me like the portmapper doesn't even exits on my
system... Any help would be appreciated.

Thanx,
Steve Tanton.

by **Juergen Hein** » Sun, 21 Dec 1997 04:00:00

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Quote:>whenever I try to run the server I get and error reporting thet the
>service cannot be registered. After nosing around for a while I found
>the rpcinfo utility. The message I get back from rpcinfo -p is
> rpcinfo: can't contact portmapper: RPC Remote system error -
>Connection refused

/usr/sbin/portmap has to be up and running.

Bye, Juergen

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