RH Taroon Beta Open Ports

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Mon Aug 25 16:09:16 UTC 2003


Howard Owen (hbo at egbok.com) said: 
> Why not configure portmapper to listen on localhost, then have the
> services (mountd, ypserv, etc.) that need it enable listening on the 
> wire when they start? You'd need a cooperative arrangement whereby the
> init scripts would shut down external portmapper if they were the last
> service that needed it on service shutdown.

Having 'mount' try and configure services would be exceedingly messy.

Bill





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