RH Taroon Beta Open Ports

Steven Bonneville sbonnevi at redhat.com
Wed Aug 27 17:15:53 UTC 2003


Dan Walsh wrote:
> I also think minimal ports should be the default.  Maybe adding some
> inteligence to the scripts or redhat-config-services to allow know that
> if you start NFS you also need to start portmapper.  Maybe
> by adding a requires flag to the NFS init script.
>
> Why do we have a bias towards the machine being a server machine?

Don't forget that the client side also needs to have portmap running 
in order to mount an NFS share.  So the mount command would have to 
start up or make sure portmap and nfslock are running, too.

  -- Steve Bonneville





More information about the devel mailing list