Portmap against cups

[Boris Vinarsky]

We noticed that occasionally CUPS service fails to start on our RHEL4 desktops because port 631 was busy. The reason was that portmapper service which selects ports in the range 600-1023 essentially randomly would assign ports 631 to ypbind or nfs.lock which start before cups.

This issue is discussed at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=103401

Does anybody have a good idea on how to resolve this collision?

Thank you,

Boris