rpc.statd error

[kancer at kancer.978.org (Kris_Loranger)]

those are all unnecessary
you should turn off any service you are not useing.

 -Kris


On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Phil Buckley wrote:

> I probably don't need rpc running... when I started looking in the configuration file, I see a couple instances of rpc...
>
> sunrpc          111/tcp         portmapper      # RPC 4.0 portmapper TCP
> sunrpc          111/udp         portmapper      # RPC 4.0 portmapper UDP
>
> as well as...
>
> rpc2portmap     369/tcp
> rpc2portmap     369/udp                         # Coda portmapper
>
>
> Do I need to leave these active for any reason if I'm not utilizing rpc?
>
> tia,
> Phil
>
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> On 4/23/2001 at 9:51 AM Kris_Loranger wrote:
>
> >Looks like a possible rpc buffer overflow? Do you need rpc running?
> >
> > -Kris
> >
> >
> >On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Phil Buckley wrote:
> >
> >> Anyone have an idea why I might be getting this error (from log file)?
> >Also, does anyone have a suggestion for checking to see if statd is
> >functioning properly?
> >>
> >> TIA,
> >> Phil
> >>
> >> Apr 21 11:00:48 galloproductions rpc.statd[342]: gethostbyname error for
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> >^H^P!
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> >>
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