On 02Jan2010 14:47, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday(a)crashcourse.ca&gt; wrote: | i'm tracing the execution of rpcbind on my f12 system, and in the | common code, i read: | | prog="rpcbind" | [ -f /etc/sysconfig/$prog ] && . /etc/sysconfig/$prog | | while in the start() function, there is: | | daemon $prog $RPCBIND_ARGS $1 | | i'm curious about this since: | | 1) there's no apparent documentation for setting/using $RPCBIND_ARGS "man rpcbind" describes a heap of options. Clearly you can put any of them into RPCBIND_ARGS. | 2) there's no /etc/sysconfig/rpcbind file for initial config A pity. There really ought to be a stub file with an empty RPCBIND_ARGS="" assignment. And a comment. | 3) there's no mention of RPCBIND_ARGS in the rpcbind man page Of course not. It's an artifact of the f12 startup scripts, not the rpcbind daemon itself. | admittedly, that doesn't make any of this *wrong*, it just seems | that $RPCBIND_ARGS is kind of hanging out there, without anyone making | an effort to explain what might be done with it or why it would be | useful. thoughts? Like all the /etc/sysconfig files, you can put something like: RPCBIND_ARGS="-h some.local.lan.address" or the like to start rpcbind with particular arguments. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <cs(a)zip.com.au&gt; DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ Feeling Stressed Out? Sometimes it helps to think of happy scenes, maybe a pastoral field, a field with a babbling brook. You're there on a lovely summer's day . . . . . . holding someone's head under the water. Now you're letting them up for a second, then blam! Back into the freezing water! Over and over again!! There! Feel better? - Steve Daniels (Official JBT of a.p) <daniels(a)cdsnet.net&gt;