RPC

[Michael Louie Loria]

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>>>I'm creating a C program that will use RPC but whenever I run it, it
>>>receives this error. I have tested it n Red Hat 9 and it works fine.
>>>
>>>Cannot register service: RPC: Unable to receive; errno = Connection
>>>refused unable to register (ADD_PROG, ADD_VERS, udp)
>>>
>>>How will I fix this problem?
>>>
>>>thanks,
>>>
>>>Michael Louie Loria
>>
>>I'm not 100% sure, but I think your problem is because there is no RPC
>>daemon running on your system.  You need to install the package
>>"portmap".  It's not installed by default in Hoary.
>>
>>Either give my solution a try, or wait for someone with more knowledge
>>to help you.
>>Ziyad.


You're correct:

$apt-cache show portmap
Package: portmap
Priority: optional
Section: net
Installed-Size: 116
Maintainer: Anibal Monsalve Salazar
Architecture: i386
Version: 5-7ubuntu3
Replaces: netbase (<< 4.00)
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4), libwrap0, lsb-base (>= 1.3-9ubuntu3)
Filename: pool/main/p/portmap/portmap_5-7ubuntu3_i386.deb
Size: 22992
MD5sum: f96ea08aaf1c2ad5e895e1a1c9b11163
Description: The RPC portmapper
 Portmap is a server that converts RPC (Remote Procedure Call) program
 numbers into DARPA protocol port numbers.  It must be running in order
 to make RPC calls.
 .
 Services that use RPC include NFS and NIS.
Bugs: mailto:ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
Origin: Ubuntu

Cheers,

James

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Thanks ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY and James Gray. I needed to install
portmap and got it running

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