Ensuring inetd is started before any RPC services

[Bruce M. Simpson]

Trond Endrestøl wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I have on many occasions run into the situation where the RPC based 
> services have occupied the well-known ports for other non-RPC based 
> services. Last week rpc.lockd on one of my systems got hold of TCP 
> port 995, leaving inetd unable to start any pop3s services.
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Another fix for this is to add flags to the daemons themselves to allow 
the RPC services to be bound by port number. I added this to mountd so 
that I could bind its port on startup for running mountd on a DMZ host, 
thus enabling mountd access to be filtered in the firewall.

Regards,
BMS