portmap-5beta

Introduction to portmap

The portmap package is a more secure replacement for the original SUN portmap package. Portmap is used to forward RPC requests to RPC daemons such as NFS and NIS.

Package information

portmap dependencies

Required

tcpwrappers-7.6

Installation of portmap

Install portmap with the following commands:

patch -Np1 -i ../portmap-5beta-compilation-fixes-2.patch &&
patch -Np1 -i ../portmap-5beta-glibc-errno-fix.patch &&
make &&
make install
[Note]

Note

The above installation places executable portmap in /sbin. You may choose to move the file to /usr/sbin. If you do, remember to modify the bootscript.

Configuring portmap

Config files

/etc/rc.d/init.d/portmap

Boot script

Install the /etc/rc.d/init.d/portmap init script included in the blfs-bootscripts-5.1 package.

make install-portmap

Contents

The portmap package contains portmap, pmap_dump and pmap_set.

Description

portmap

portmap is the RPC port mapper.

pmap_dump

pmap_dump saves the port mapping table to an ASCII file.

pmap_set

pmap_set restores the port mapping table from an ASCII file.