Tracy Phillips

Have you ever seen this in your logs:

10:55:18 [server] nfslock: rpc.statd startup failed

If you have, you might want to check and make sure that you have portmap running

[server][root][~]# service portmap status
portmap is stopped

Oppps. Portmap is not running. Let’s check and see if portmap is configured to start at boot?

[server][root][~]# chkconfig --list portmap
portmap        	0:off	1:off	2:off	3:off	4:off	5:off	6:off

And if it’s not (as is our case), configure it to start at boot:

[server][root][~]# chkconfig portmap on

Ahhhhh, thats more like it. This is how it should look:

[server][root][~]# chkconfig --list portmap
portmap         0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off

And crank it up

[server][root][~]# service portmap start
Starting portmap:                                          [  OK  ]

Now you can make sure it is running

[server][root][~]# service portmap status
portmap (pid 15384) is running...