On 2008-07-15 21:15 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> The portmap init script still uses `pidof portmap' when deciding whether
> to start portmap instead of creating a pidfile under /var/run. This
> means that
>
> - the potential DoS in #448470 still exists
>
> - on system shutdown portmap will be killed by sendsigs, causing trouble.
>
> The latter problem was triggered on my system when I switched to a
> dependency based boot system with the insserv package. It moved
> nfs-common after sendsigs and the rpc.{stat,idmap}.d processes had to be
> SIGKILLed, causing a 5-6 seconds delay in the shutdown process. See the
> thread starting at
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/initscripts-ng-devel/2008-July/000548.html.
I tried to change portmap's init script to use "start-stop-daemon
--pidfile", but without success. The problem is that portmap starts
before mountnfs-bootclean.sh which deletes its pidfile. :-(
Regards,
Sven
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