On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 4:03 PM, Eve V. E. Kovacs <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Has anyone tried to fix the ports that nfs uses for its various daemons?
> Supposedly, by setting the environmental variables in/etc/sysconfig/nfs,
> one can fix the ports on which the daemons listen.
>
> All of them work except for LOCKD_UDPPORT
> No matter what port I set, when the system (SL5.2) boots, it just chooses
> some random port for udp lockd.
> Has anyone come across this? Any idea why it doesn't work?
> Thanks,
> Eve

This blog by CentOS developer, Jim Perrin, may help:

http://www.bofh-hunter.com/2007/12/07/locking-down-nfs/

Akemi