Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 00:07:23 -0500 From: Glenn Johnson <glennpj@bayouhome.net> To: Ryan <rd64pro@pacbell.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sunrpc on port:111? Message-ID: <20000601000723.A18358@gforce.johnson.home> In-Reply-To: <00053120565400.00851@ryan.pacbell.net>; from rd64pro@pacbell.net on Wed, May 31, 2000 at 08:26:08PM -0700 References: <00053120565400.00851@ryan.pacbell.net>
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On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 08:26:08PM -0700, Ryan wrote: > During one of my late night sessions of endless tinkering with > my BSD box, I installed GTKPortScan (merely for fun; and out of > curiosity). Anyway, after running it on a few different IPs, I decided > to run it on my own. Well, I was pleased to find an open port with > a daemon running on it that I am unfamiliar with (I like that; it > sparks more curiosity). Aside from FTP, Telnet, http, etc, I have > something called "sunrpc" running on port 111. I have no idea what > this is. While I was in inetd.conf disabling finger and a few others, > I didn't see any mention of sunrpc. I found a sunrpc directory under > /usr/share/examples, and one of the files within said something about > a remote message printing protocol. Could someone be so kind as to > offer a brief explanation on what this is/does? RPC stands for Remote Procedure Call; 'man -a rpc' will give you two manual pages to read. > Also, while I remember, how can restart inetd (or any daemon, for that > matter) without restarting BSD? I was under the impression I could > send it an HUP signal via 'kill' and then just restart it, but kill > wants a pid that I can't find. Anyone? Thanks... Look in /var/run. Do 'cat /var/run/inetd.pid' to get the PID for inetd. -- Glenn Johnson glennpj@bayouhome.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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