RH Taroon Beta Open Ports
David T Hollis
dhollis at davehollis.com
Wed Aug 27 14:36:49 UTC 2003
Rik van Riel wrote:
>On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Steve Dickson wrote:
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>>Portmapper has been around quite a long time making it pretty bullet
>>proof... So I see no reason what so ever to turn off portmapper.
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>General paranoia sounds like a legitimate enough reason
>to me.
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>>Lets not make a system more difficult to deal with for simply no
>>reason...
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>Meaning we should start the portmapper as soon as we start
>some service that needs it and not start the portmapper if
>it's not needed.
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>If we can determine and configure this automagically, I
>don't see how we'd be making life harder for anyone.
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Begins to suggest that program that I can't remember the name of for the
life of me. It actually in Rawhide briefly before 9 came out. It used
an XML format to define services and what they depended on. With that
app, you would add portmap as a dependency for nfs or xinetd (for
sgi_fam) or any other apps and it would ensure that portmap was started
before them.
Now I certainly realize that going towards something like that is a
massive change to the boot process and is not something that would
happen anytime soon, but it is an interesting idea.
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