Hi, It is a Sunday sooo.... I was just setting up two NFS enabled boxes and was like "gee, those need to be secured some way" and "portmapper assigns random ports, how do we fix that", thus of course first query on IRC and folks say "there is -p <port", thus of course I check /etc/default/nfs-common and what do I find: 8<--------------------------------------------------------------- # Options for rpc.statd. # Should rpc.statd listen on a specific port? # This is especially useful # when you have a port-based firewall. To use a fixed port, set this # this variable to a statd argument like: # "--port 4000 --outgoing-port 4001". # For more information, see rpc.statd(8) or # http://wiki.debian.org/?SecuringNFS STATDOPTS= --------------------------------------------------------------->8 Which is of course the completely correct answer and even better it even links to a very valuable wiki page answering, for this problem all the Q's I wanted answered after that. Now, why post this to -devel you wonder? Wellps, there is a bugs.debian.org where we can complain to all the debian developers that they are making so many mistakes, peeping up all the time, breaking stuff, wreaking havoc and generally making the users live a misery. (Actually I can't recall at the moment the last time a package b0rked something, thus they are actually doing an awesome job! ;) Anyhow, thus what about a kudos.debian.org, this as a reverse of bugs.debian.org, a place where people can say "Thank you people who do this package, it is really great what you are doing". I am fairly sure that developers love to hear that at least once in a while, especially versus all the bug reports they get. One could even make stats like 'most kudos' received, make an annual 'most kudos award' etc.... There is though one bad side-effect of that, folks who are doing a lot of hidden grunt-work go unnoticed and won't be getting any kudos for their work even though a lot of people are actually using their stuff and most likely appreciating it. Another problem is that finding out who actually did the piece you really like is quite hard (unless there is a colored diff with 'who introduced this' thing somewhere that I am not aware of and that the person who logs it is also correctly crediting the right person etc etc) thus you most likely end up crediting the package for it, while maybe someone not directly related to the package has contributed that piece to the package. Nevertheless, thank you Debian Developers and all the other contributing folks for Debian! Greets, Jeroen
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