Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 17:14:22 +0200 (CEST) From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Trond_Endrest=F8l?= <Trond.Endrestol@fagskolen.gjovik.no> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: re@freebsd.org, FreeBSD stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Ensuring inetd is started before any RPC services Message-ID: <20061017171137.W27675@ramstind.fig.ol.no> In-Reply-To: <20061017143947.GA68977@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> References: <20061017082319.I27675@ramstind.fig.ol.no> <20061017143947.GA68977@lor.one-eyed-alien.net>
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This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --0-2081087140-1161098062=:27675 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 09:39-0500, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 08:46:49AM +0200, Trond Endrest?l wrote: > > I have on many occasions run into the situation where the RPC based > > services have occupied the well-known ports for other non-RPC based > > services. Last week rpc.lockd on one of my systems got hold of TCP > > port 995, leaving inetd unable to start any pop3s services. > > > > The easy cure is to add this line > > > > # BEFORE: rpcbind > > > > to /etc/rc.d/inetd. > > > > You might want to consider fixing /etc/rc.d/inetd prior to the release > > of 6.2. > > I'm pretty sure this change would break inetd's rpc service support and > would change the startup order more significantly than I think is > appropriate this late in the release cycle. Yes, I see your point. I guess we who never run any RPC services through inetd must make this change ourself, and it's relatively easy to maintain this change when using mergemaster after each installworld. One size does not fit all, not in this case. Trond. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Trond Endrestøl | trond@fagskolen.gjovik.no Patron of The Art of Computer Programming| FreeBSD 6.1-S & Pine 4.64 --0-2081087140-1161098062=:27675--
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