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--- Comment #9 from dev001x _ <pgngw+dev001+novell.com@xxxxxx> 2010-09-09 
16:03:47 UTC ---
> But there's no reason for it to be random when /etc/services has a port
> reserved for it. Or do you see one?

honestly, i'm confused as to what _should_ be ...

i looked for, but did not find, an RFC for rquotad.  this comment,

  http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-fsdevel/2007/11/27/451355

seems to verify that there is none, really :-/


i can say simply that 

/etc/services has

  quotad          762/tcp
  quotad          762/udp

not

  rquotad 4003/tcp
  rquotad 4003/udp 

as referenced/instructed @
http://www.novell.com/support/viewContent.do?externalId=7000524&sliceId=1

and, rquotad ignores 'quotad' port assignment in /etc/services, but DOES pick
up 'rquotad' port if defined _either_ in /etc/services _as_ rquotad, or with a
"-p (port)" spec.

if you search around, the interchangeable (mis)use of quotad vs rquotad is, at
best, confusing.

maybe (?) some of the confusion comes from the facts that, per rquotad manpage:
"... The results are used by quota(1) ..."

my suggestion -- switch to consistent use pf rquotad.  it's what novell
references in its docs, there's a manpage for it, etc ... even the (mis)named
/etc/init.d/quota references it.  

then again, not sure what implications that has elsewhere.   like you said --
it's a mess.

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