HowTo: Enable PortMap on Fedora 8

Looking for portmap rpm package in Fedora 8?
How to recover and install portmap on Fedora 7 and Fedora 8?
Have you lost or uninstalled your portmap package on Fedora 7/8?
Does your NFS service handing due to deactivated portmap service?
Are you experiencing weird start up problems with your NFS?

What is Portmap?

Portmap is a security tool which prevents theft of NIS (YP), NFS and other sensitive information via the portmapper. A portmapper manages RPC connections, which are used by protocols like
NFS and NIS. The portmap package should be installed on any machine which acts as a
server for protocols using RPC.

Doing the below results on searchinf for portmap service brings out zero results.

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# rpm -qa portmap
# which `portmap`
# yum install portmap
# whereis portmap
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Solution:

With old Fedora, portmap is installed from portmap package, but in Fedora 7 and Fedora 8, portmap has been replaced by RPCBind on Fedora 7 and Fedora 8.

To activate portmap service, simply
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# service rpcbind start
# service rpcbind restart
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To make portmap and rpcbind activate permanently between reboots,
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# chkconfig --levels 35 rpcbind on
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If you don't have your portmap or rpcbind installed, simply install rpcbind using yum like so
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# yum install rpcbind
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Since NFS service fails without portmap/rpcbind service being activated, try enabling your NFS service daemon now to further test the recently installed package:

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# service nfs start
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Enjoy.