[Dovecot] dovecot loading during boot

[Karsten Bräckelmann]

[ adding the list back to Cc ]

On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 14:28 +0100, Marcus Rueckert wrote:
> On 2007-11-22 13:31:59 +0100, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote:
> > And impossible for SuSE out-of-the-box, given their
> > braindead [1] init scripts.
> 
> what is so braindead about it?

See these posts, the second one in particular. Also, my original
Shorewall rules and documentation might be interesting.
 http://www.mail-archive.com/shorewall-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg03986.html
 http://www.mail-archive.com/shorewall-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg03985.html

Please note that the initial reason for the above pinning down NFS ports
is firewall-friendly behavior and sane rules. With NFS, most involved
services use random ports by default, particularly statd, lockd, mountd,
rquotad. Which leads to somewhat unsatisfying rules as shown in [1].


The init script shipped by SuSE offers no way whatsoever to pass
rpc.statd options, even though it does for rpc.mountd -- and thus no way
to pin down the port out-of-the-box short of hacking the init script.

Marcus, please feel free to keep me posted on this issue and a fix. I'll
happily forward updates to the Shorewall lists.

  guenther


[1] http://shorewall.net/ports.htm#NFS

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