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Re: rpc.statd



Ethan Benson [erbenson@alaska.net] said:
> easier said then done, statd allocates a random (usually privileged)
> port and registers it with the portmapper.  blocking it with ipchains
> is a pain.  about the only way you can do it is to use a script that
> parses the output of rpcinfo -p localhost to find statd's current port
> and make a rule for it.  that of course breaks as soon as nfs-common
> gets restarted.

I do this and I add a line to /etc/init.d/nfs-common so that when
nfs-common is started, it executes the script. It's far from perfect,
but it seems to work better than nothing.

--paulv

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