RH Taroon Beta Open Ports

Howard Owen hbo at egbok.com
Mon Aug 25 20:41:20 UTC 2003


I actually was thinking the init script could do it, though
that too would be contrary to standard practice.

On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 09:09, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> 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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