diff --git a/SOURCES/nfs-utils_env.sh b/SOURCES/nfs-utils_env.sh
index 40ee80f..bcdf30e 100644
--- a/SOURCES/nfs-utils_env.sh
+++ b/SOURCES/nfs-utils_env.sh
@@ -46,8 +46,6 @@ fi
 
 if [ -n "$RPCNFSDCOUNT" ]; then
     nfsds=$RPCNFSDCOUNT
-else
-    nfsds=8
 fi
 
 if [ -n "$RPCNFSDARGS" ]; then
diff --git a/SPECS/nfs-utils.spec b/SPECS/nfs-utils.spec
index 41d1782..5093291 100644
--- a/SPECS/nfs-utils.spec
+++ b/SPECS/nfs-utils.spec
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Summary: NFS utilities and supporting clients and daemons for the kernel NFS ser
 Name: nfs-utils
 URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/nfs
 Version: 1.3.0
-Release: 0.65%{?dist}
+Release: 0.66%{?dist}
 Epoch: 1
 
 # group all 32bit related archs
@@ -718,6 +718,9 @@ fi
 /sbin/umount.nfs4
 
 %changelog
+* Mon Aug  5 2019 Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com> 1.3.0-0.66
+- nfs-utils_env.sh: Removed the hard coded number of nfsds (bz 1736801)
+
 * Thu May 23 2019 Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com> 1.3.0-0.65
 - Fixed typo of mountd-memleak.patch not being applied (bz 1711210)