From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 31 16: 7:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lists.blarg.net (lists.blarg.net [206.124.128.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7203937B401 for ; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 16:07:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from thig.blarg.net (thig.blarg.net [206.124.128.18]) by lists.blarg.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10234BD30; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 16:07:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([206.124.139.115]) by thig.blarg.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA19985; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 16:07:48 -0800 Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.3) id fA106Ml52746; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 16:06:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@blarg.net) To: "Anthony Atkielski" Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" Subject: Re: What does portmap do? References: <004101c16254$10ed3300$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 31 Oct 2001 16:06:21 -0800 In-Reply-To: <004101c16254$10ed3300$0a00000a@atkielski.com> Message-ID: Lines: 13 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Anthony Atkielski" writes: > I see portmap running in top. Apparently it is a daemon associated with RPC. > However, I don't recall installing any RPC stuff on my machine. Should it be > there, and what does it to? I am concerned because RPC can be an open door to > security breaches. I think it comes with the basic OS as /usr/sbin/portmap and with a man page. Or you could read about it at http://www.rt.com/man/portmap.8.html Many people don't need to run it (or RPC). NFS and some inetd functions need it, IIRC. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message