> Should it be running, or not?

>root@mercury:[~]$ netstat -ap --inet | grep rpc

>tcp        0      0 *:sunrpc                    *:*                         LISTEN      6458/portsentry

>udp        0      0 localhost:filenet-rpc       localhost:filenet-rpc       ESTABLISHED 1980/postmaster

It looks like you need to deconfigure portsentry from listening on that port and then you should be good to go.  IOW, portsentry is ok to run, but not on your portmapper port when you need to run portmapper.

-geoff

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Geoff Galitz
Blankenheim NRW, Germany
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