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Date:      Tue, 17 Oct 2006 11:25:50 -0400
From:      Michael Proto <mike@jellydonut.org>
To:        Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Ensuring inetd is started before any RPC services
Message-ID:  <4534F5FE.30609@jellydonut.org>
In-Reply-To: <4534EC94.4090103@jellydonut.org>
References:  <20061017082319.I27675@ramstind.fig.ol.no>	<20061017143947.GA68977@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> <4534EC94.4090103@jellydonut.org>

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Michael Proto wrote:
> 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.
>>
>> -- Brooks
> 
> What about adding a default port flag to /etc/defaults/rc.conf that
> doesn't conflict with /etc/services?
> 
> mountd_flags="-r -p 924" (or similar)
> 

Doh! I just read the parent and see its regarding rpc.lockd and not
mountd, my mistake.


-Proto



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