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rpcbind package

  1. Bug #1558196
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 1558196

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John Sopko (sopko) wrote : Re: rpcbind does not start on boot under systemd

rpcbind.socket is active, nis fails to start because it cannot contact the rpcbind server so I guess it is not using the socket to communicate. Reading the ypbind and ypbind.conf man pages does not have any info or options on registering with rpcbind.

root@tophat:~# systemctl status rpcbind.socket
* rpcbind.socket - RPCbind Server Activation Socket
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/rpcbind.socket; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (listening) since Thu 2016-03-17 07:49:58 EDT; 1min 1s ago
   Listen: /run/rpcbind.sock (Stream)

root@tophat:~# systemctl status rpcbind
* rpcbind.service - RPC bind portmap service
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/rpcbind.service; indirect; vendor preset: enabled)
  Drop-In: /run/systemd/generator/rpcbind.service.d
           `-50-rpcbind-$portmap.conf
   Active: inactive (dead)

root@tophat:~# systemctl status nis
* nis.service - LSB: Start NIS client and server daemons.
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/nis; bad; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (exited) since Thu 2016-03-17 07:50:33 EDT; 48s ago
     Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
  Process: 1230 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/nis start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
    Tasks: 0 (limit: 512)