On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 12:21 -0600, Andy Feldt wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> I have updated a couple of test machines to RHEL 5.3 and find that
> the mechanism for choosing a fixed TCP port for NFS file locking
> has apparently changed.  With 5.2, I could set the variable:
>    LOCKD_TCPPORT
> in /etc/sysconfig/nfs and I could add a 'modprobe lockd' statement
> in the /etc/init.d/nfslock file (just before the sysctl executions so
> that they could work) and all was well.
> 
> This no longer works and the output of:
> 
>    rpcinfo -p localhost | grep lock
> 
> shows that nlockmgr is not using the TCP port we specify.
> This causes problems with a variety of programs (like Firefox)
> for users whose home directories are on an NFS mounted
> file system served by a RHEL 5.3 server (with a restrictive
> firewall that intends to only allow the minimum of ports
> needed).
> 
> Has anyone solved this already?
> 

Try this bug:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=434795

looks queued for 5.4
-- 
Matthew Kent \ SA \ bravenet.com

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