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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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On Thu, 4 Sep 1997, Jacques Hugo wrote:

> Hi there!
> 
> I got these error msgs on my console at boot time.
> Can someone pleeaase explain this.
> 
> (Running 2.2.1-RELEASE)
> 
> nfsd Can't register mount
> rpc.statd can't register with udp portmap.  Cannot register service:
> 	  RPC: Unable to send; errno = Permision denied
> 	  unable to register (SM_PROG, SM_VERS, udp).
> 
> Portmap is running.  Thanks for the help.

Do you have ipfw running?  You may be blocking the portmap port.

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