nfs-kernel-server and portmap

Sean Legassick sean_legassick at datamage.net
Thu Nov 18 07:36:40 CST 2004


Hi,

I'm currently running Warty, so ignore me if this has already been 
changed for Hoary...

I just installed nfs-kernel-server, and had to a little poking to work 
out that it wasn't working because portmap was still configured to bind 
only to the loopback interface. This was simple enough to change once 
I'd worked it out, but as these are Ubuntu-supported packages I wonder 
if there is a way to automate this.

I guess you could argue that anyone that wants to expose NFS shares 
should understand this stuff anyway, but I certainly don't see why you 
would install an NFS server without wanting to expose the shares beyond 
localhost...

(I'm also learning about the Debian packaging system - having come from 
non-Debian distros - and am curious in general to know if there's an 
elegant approach to this kind of need to reconfigure another package?)

Cheers,
Sean




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