Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 00:16:32 -0700 From: Ryan <rd64pro@pacbell.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sunrpc on port:111? Message-ID: <001001bfcb99$503a5c20$e986d4cf@pacbell.net> References: <00053120565400.00851@ryan.pacbell.net> <20000601000723.A18358@gforce.johnson.home>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Cool... thanks guys... ----- Original Message ----- From: Glenn Johnson To: Ryan Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 10:07 PM Subject: Re: sunrpc on port:111? 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 [-- Attachment #2 --] <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 5.50.3825.1300" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff size=2>Cool... thanks guys...</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=glennpj@bayouhome.net href="mailto:glennpj@bayouhome.net">Glenn Johnson</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=rd64pro@pacbell.net href="mailto:rd64pro@pacbell.net">Ryan</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A title=freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG href="mailto:freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG">freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, May 31, 2000 10:07 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: sunrpc on port:111?</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV>On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 08:26:08PM -0700, Ryan wrote:<BR><BR>> During one of my late night sessions of endless tinkering with<BR>> my BSD box, I installed GTKPortScan (merely for fun; and out of<BR>> curiosity). Anyway, after running it on a few different IPs, I decided<BR>> to run it on my own. Well, I was pleased to find an open port with<BR>> a daemon running on it that I am unfamiliar with (I like that; it<BR>> sparks more curiosity). Aside from FTP, Telnet, http, etc, I have<BR>> something called "sunrpc" running on port 111. I have no idea what<BR>> this is. While I was in inetd.conf disabling finger and a few others,<BR>> I didn't see any mention of sunrpc. I found a sunrpc directory under<BR>> /usr/share/examples, and one of the files within said something about<BR>> a remote message printing protocol. Could someone be so kind as to<BR>> offer a brief explanation on what this is/does?<BR><BR>RPC stands for Remote Procedure Call; 'man -a rpc' will give you two<BR>manual pages to read.<BR><BR>> Also, while I remember, how can restart inetd (or any daemon, for that<BR>> matter) without restarting BSD? I was under the impression I could<BR>> send it an HUP signal via 'kill' and then just restart it, but kill<BR>> wants a pid that I can't find. Anyone? Thanks...<BR><BR>Look in /var/run. Do 'cat /var/run/inetd.pid' to get the PID for inetd.<BR><BR>-- <BR>Glenn Johnson<BR><A href="mailto:glennpj@bayouhome.net">glennpj@bayouhome.net</A></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>
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