[Gllug] How can Spam bypass SpamAssassin entirely?

[Ben Fitzgerald]

On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 05:46:42PM +0100, John Winters wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 17:35, John Winters wrote:
> > Hi all,
> 
> Ignore that query.  I discovered spamd wasn't running because NIS had
> pinched its network port.
> 
> Does anyone else have problems with NIS/NFS helping itself to ports used
> by, for instance, spamassassin and cupsys?  I've had it happen a number
> of times recently but the response I've had from maintainers is that
> it's just one of those things and there's nothing you can do about it. 
> Doesn't sound right to me.

You can bind nfs related daemons to static port numbers, as described
here:

http://www.lowth.com/LinWiz/nfs_help.html

I guess you could take the same approach with NIS? Haven't tried that
one myself...

Ben
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