Shutting down unnecessary services

[Derek Martin]

On Thu, 20 Jul 2000 ccb at valinux.com wrote:

> 
> Hi John -
> 
>    I don't think portmap is used for any of the 'r' commands.  It's a
> SUN RPC thing.  If you're not using NFS or YP you can generally turn
> it off - unless of course you have other SUN RPC apps.

I concur.  I can't think of anything else which is commonly used on a
Linux system that uses portmap.


-- 
Derek Martin
System Administrator
Mission Critical Linux
martin at MissionCriticalLinux.com 

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