whence RPCBIND_ARGS?
Cameron Simpson
cs at zip.com.au
Sat Jan 2 22:53:53 UTC 2010
On 02Jan2010 14:47, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
| i'm tracing the execution of rpcbind on my f12 system, and in the
| common code, i read:
|
| prog="rpcbind"
| [ -f /etc/sysconfig/$prog ] && . /etc/sysconfig/$prog
|
| while in the start() function, there is:
|
| daemon $prog $RPCBIND_ARGS $1
|
| i'm curious about this since:
|
| 1) there's no apparent documentation for setting/using $RPCBIND_ARGS
"man rpcbind" describes a heap of options. Clearly you can put any of
them into RPCBIND_ARGS.
| 2) there's no /etc/sysconfig/rpcbind file for initial config
A pity. There really ought to be a stub file with an empty
RPCBIND_ARGS="" assignment. And a comment.
| 3) there's no mention of RPCBIND_ARGS in the rpcbind man page
Of course not. It's an artifact of the f12 startup scripts, not the
rpcbind daemon itself.
| admittedly, that doesn't make any of this *wrong*, it just seems
| that $RPCBIND_ARGS is kind of hanging out there, without anyone making
| an effort to explain what might be done with it or why it would be
| useful. thoughts?
Like all the /etc/sysconfig files, you can put something like:
RPCBIND_ARGS="-h some.local.lan.address"
or the like to start rpcbind with particular arguments.
Cheers,
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