Do I need portmap? also Q on identd

[warlord at MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)]

Are you using NFS?  NIS?  If not, then you probably do not need
portmap.

-derek

David Kramer <david at thekramers.net> writes:

> If I don't know of any rpc stuff I'm doing, do I need portmap?
> 
> Also, identd (which I think I need to do irc) seems to be running one
> master and three slaves.  /etc/identd.conf does not appear to have an
> option to control the number of copies running.  How do I do that?  And
> will irc still work if I have it return uid instead of name?
> 
> Thanks.
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