HowTo: Recover Missing Portmap on Fedora 8

Are these lines familiar to you?

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# service portmap status
portmap: unrecognized service

# service nfs start
Cannot register service: RPC: Unable to receive; errno = Connection refused
rpc.rquotad: unable to register (RQUOTAPROG, RQUOTAVERS, udp).
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I have been receiving quite a large emails asking me to cover portmap again on Fedora 8. From an old post, I have covered a brief guide on how to install portmap on Fedora 7. As we all know, portmap was still available from earlier release versions of Fedora until Fedora 8 was born.

What makes portmapping service important?

The rpcbind utility is a server that converts RPC program numbers into universal addresses. Portmap or rpcbind must be running on the host to be able to make RPC calls on a server on that machine.

Portmap Installation on Fedora 8

Well, here goes an entry on how to install/recover a missing/lost portmap daemon service on Fedora 8 distro.

# yum -y install rpcbind

Yes, you read it right. Portmap is RPCBind on Fedora 8

Portmap or RPCBind Daemon Service Activation

# service rpcbind start

Now, you can start playing with NFS server.

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