rpcd

[Paul Thomson_2]

We have had a problem with some of our servers in Spain where openspool was hanging showing the unable to connect to the llbd database. In these cases the cause was rpcd was not running. Any ideas on what would kill this or is he process logged anywhere ??

[Steven Sim Kok Leong]

Hi,

Check that:

1) /etc/rc.config.d/Rpcd contains the line (1 instead of 0).

START_RPCD=1

2) /sbin/rc2.d/S570dce is activated (ie S570dec with the capital S).

3) /sbin/rc2.d/S590Rpcd is activated (ie S590Rpcd with the capital S).

The above steps will make sure that the rpcd service is started up during system initialisation.

If you wish to manually start up rpcd, execute

# /sbin/init.d/Rpcd start

Hope this helps. Regards.

Steven Sim Kok Leong
Brainbench MVP for Unix Admin
http://www.brainbench.com

[Roger Baptiste]

hi,

If you are running hpux 10.X or higher, llbd is not needed. It''s functions are taken care by rpcd.
Here's an extract from the
/sbin/init.d/Rpcd file

***
# As of HP-UX 10.x, the NCS Local Location Broker daemon (llbd) is
# superseded by either the DCE RPC daemon (rpcd) or the DCE host daemon
# (dced). On HP-UX 10.01, if HP DCE 1.4 has been installed, dced will
# be present, and if not, rpcd will be present.

# rpcd and dced provide all of the LLB services that formerly were
# provided by llbd, plus additional DCE services. If either the RPCD
# rc file enables rpcd service or the DCE rc file enables rpcd or dced
# service, rpcd or dced will be started up.
***

Regarding your question,
the /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log
file would be a useful place to check on the rpcd history.

HTH
raj

[Wodisch]

Hello Paul,

not having used OpenSpool for some time, I seem to remember that even OSP had the occasional problem to run concurrently with MWA (MeasureWare Agent), as this (sometimes) block the rpcd :-(
Do you run MWA on that station?
Then stop it (mwa stop), and stop and re-start OSP - does it work then?
There should be a patch out for MWA to not cause this anymore...

HTH,
Wodisch