(follow-up) Wietse's RPCBIND

[Chiaki.Ishikawa () PERSONAL-MEDIA CO JP (Chiaki Ishikawa)]

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Hello,

Last week, I questioned whether I should stick to Wietse Venema's
rpcbind replacement after Sun's security notice regarding its rpcbind.

I got several e-mail suggestions.  The answer seems to be I can still
use his rpcbind replacement, but I should upgrade to 2.0.

So I did just that today.

To my pleasant surprise there is version 2.1 at
ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/security.

        rpcbind_2.1.{README,tar.gz,targ.z.sig}

This 2.1 includes the O_EXCL option, Wietse mentioned in his e-mail
posting. (Thank you, Wietse.)

I followed the instruction in README (and made sure I did exactly
similar procedure back 1.1 by looking in the old directory I keep just
in case.).  After compiling which took me a while since I moved the
tcp_wrapper directory around [libwrap.a is needed by rpcbind linking],
replacing the rpcbind was very easy to do. I just followed the
procedure in README. So far, I have not seen any problem. (I have been
running it for just a few hours, though.)

Thank every one for these wonderful tools and helpful tips
via private e-mails.


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