I have been having some problems with ypserv occasionally deciding to listen on tcp port 783, which breaks spamd. As far as I can tell from the source files of ypserv and svc_tcp.c, the subr svctcp_create simply returns an arbitrary unused port.
Since services started from /usr/local/etc/rc.d, such as spamd, start after ypserv, it may take a port needed by one of these services. Does anybody have any recommendations on how to fix or work around this problem? Some solutions that do come to mind are: 1. Sticking some code in spamd.sh to run `rpcinfo -p' and if any rpc services are using 783/tcp, kill them off before starting spamd and then restart them. 2. By pass the usual startup of ypservices in the FreeBSD boot sequence and stick my own scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.d, thus ensuring that they start after any local services. However, both of these strike me as an awful kludge. By the way, unlike some implementations of ypserv, I don't think that FreeBSD's consults /etc/services to either determine which port it should use or which ports it should avoid. Thanks in advance for any suggestions. ...Sandy _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
