Re: RH Taroon Beta Open Ports

[David T Hollis <dhollis davehollis com>]

Rik van Riel wrote:

> On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Steve Dickson wrote:
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> > Portmapper has been around quite a long time making it pretty bullet 
> > proof... So I see no reason what so ever to turn off portmapper.
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> General paranoia sounds like a legitimate enough reason
> to me.
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> > Lets not make a system more difficult to deal with for simply no
> > reason...
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> Meaning we should start the portmapper as soon as we start
> some service that needs it and not start the portmapper if
> it's not needed.
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> If we can determine and configure this automagically, I
> don't see how we'd be making life harder for anyone.
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Begins to suggest that program that I can't remember the name of for the 
life of me.  It actually in Rawhide briefly before 9 came out.  It used 
an XML format to define services and what they depended on.  With that 
app, you would add portmap as a dependency for nfs or xinetd (for 
sgi_fam) or any other apps and it would ensure that portmap was started 
before them. 

Now I certainly realize that going towards something like that is a 
massive change to the boot process and is not something that would 
happen anytime soon, but it is an interesting idea.