From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 26 0:48:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from stevie.loop.com (stevie.loop.com [207.211.60.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87C4737B424 for ; Tue, 26 Sep 2000 00:48:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from stormlocal (p43.hwts18.loop.net [207.211.63.136]) by stevie.loop.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id AAA48892; Tue, 26 Sep 2000 00:48:31 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <00bb01c0278e$d36c3fe0$883fd3cf@stormlocal> From: "Cassandra P." To: References: <003201c02653$a52ffae0$3141d3cf@stormlocal> Subject: Re: Portmapper Problems Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 00:53:13 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I found that the problem is being caused by ypserv, but I don't know why. When I run, ypserv -d, the screen scrolls up with the error message below, until I kill the process. ypserv: procedure ypproc_domain_nonack called from IP_Address:PID Where the IP_Address is the machine's address. Does anyone know what this means? Thanks, Cassandra P. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cassandra P." To: Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2000 11:17 AM Subject: Portmapper Problems > Lately I have noticed that portmapper is spawning 100+ processes on several > of my servers. I've never seen this before and I wasn't aware that > Portmapper even spawned children, until Thursday, when I had trouble with a > mail server. The children processes dies off after a few seconds, and > others are created. > > The versions of FreeBSD on the affected machines are 2.2.8 through 3.5.1. > The services that the computers have in common NFS and NIS. > > I haven't been able to determine the cause. I've disabled NFS on a machine > and restarted it, but the problem remained. I haven't tried disabling NIS > yet. > > Has anyone seen this before, or might know what the problem is? I thought > that maybe my computers have been broken into, but I can't find any evidence > of it. > > Thanks, > > Cassandra P. > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message