Question on configuring portmap

[Stuart Sears]

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Bliss, Aaron wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> Is it possible to configure the portmap/nis daemons to listen on a
> particular port instead of allowing the portmap daemon to pick a random
> port?  Thanks for your help.

yes.

portmap only uses port 111 anyway.
the others can be configured by setting variables in files under
/etc/sysconfig

eg, in /etc/sysconfig/network:

YPSERV_ARGS="-p 8008"

followed by a restart of ypserv will bind it to port 8008 only

you can do similar things with NFS

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