On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 07:51:20AM -0800, Rich Lafferty wrote: > On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 01:12:49PM +0100, David Jansen <jansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Does anyone know how to tell portmap which ports to give out? > > Portmap reports decisions, it doesn't make them -- if portmap says > a service is on port N, then that service started up on port N and > then told portmap where it was. > > You'll need to find out what service is in the way, and address it > directly, either by disabling it, starting it up after dovecot, or > reconfiguring it if possible. > > If it's always ypserv and you're an NIS server, you'll want to pass > ypserv a '-p PORTNUM' argument. Thanks, that works, at least for ypserv and related utilities which are the only ones I had problems with so far. I was looking in the wrong direction, assuming portmap was handing out the port numbers. No wonder I couldn't find the solution. David
