Re: It's annoying when something other than rsyncd listens on tco/873

2010-08-17 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Monday, August 16, 2010 20:20:31 -0400 jhell jh...@dataix.net wrote: On 08/16/2010 01:49, David Wolfskill wrote: My build machine is noisy generates heat, so I leave it powered off when it's not actively in use. As a consequence, it gets rebooted rather often. It is configured to run

Re: It's annoying when something other than rsyncd listens on tco/873

2010-08-16 Thread Jyoti Sharma
I would prefer this approach: amd.conf has the option preferred_amq_port to specify the listening port. Don't know about ypbind. It is not just rsyncd that can get disturbed. Grabbing arbitrary port without consulting /etc/services and the startup scripts is a bad idea for any service.

Re: It's annoying when something other than rsyncd listens on tco/873

2010-08-16 Thread Doug Barton
On 8/15/2010 10:49 PM, David Wolfskill wrote: The most straightforward way to make this a non-issue (it seems to me) would be to start rsyncd(8) before other services that grab arbitrary ports; however, the start-up script for rsyncd s[ecifies: # PROVIDE: rsyncd # REQUIRE: LOGIN # BEFORE:

Re: It's annoying when something other than rsyncd listens on tco/873

2010-08-16 Thread David Wolfskill
On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 10:49:32PM -0700, David Wolfskill wrote: [... rsyncd(8) port -- 873/tcp -- grabbed by either ypbind or amd before rsynd started, so rsyncd isn't functional -- and doesn't whine about it or terminate] Thanks for the suggestions so far. Unfortunately, I'm finding

Re: It's annoying when something other than rsyncd listens on tco/873

2010-08-16 Thread jhell
On 08/16/2010 01:49, David Wolfskill wrote: My build machine is noisy generates heat, so I leave it powered off when it's not actively in use. As a consequence, it gets rebooted rather often. It is configured to run rsyncd(8) so I can update my laptop's local mirror of the FreeBSD SVN

Re: It's annoying when something other than rsyncd listens on tco/873

2010-08-16 Thread Doug Barton
On 08/16/2010 17:20, jhell wrote: The problem that I came across was that /usr/local/etc/rc.d is parsed long after /etc/rc.d contents This hasn't been true for a very long time. I first added the code to incorporate the local scripts into the base rcorder almost 5 years ago. so adding the

Re: It's annoying when something other than rsyncd listens on tco/873

2010-08-16 Thread RW
On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 20:20:31 -0400 jhell jh...@dataix.net wrote: The problem that I came across was that /usr/local/etc/rc.d is parsed long after /etc/rc.d contents so adding the BEFORE to the rsync start script would not help or didn't at that time. That only matters if you need to sort

It's annoying when something other than rsyncd listens on tco/873

2010-08-15 Thread David Wolfskill
My build machine is noisy generates heat, so I leave it powered off when it's not actively in use. As a consequence, it gets rebooted rather often. It is configured to run rsyncd(8) so I can update my laptop's local mirror of the FreeBSD SVN repository. A couple of mornings ago, I woke up,