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Date:      Wed, 8 Aug 2001 17:02:07 +0200
From:      "Michael Nottebrock" <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>
To:        "Jonas Sonntag" <js@jonsonn.de>, <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: open ports
Message-ID:  <00a101c1201b$1905c960$0408a8c0@localdomain>
References:  <OGEMLNCPKLDPIACJOMOLAEGACDAA.js@jonsonn.de>

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From: "Jonas Sonntag" <js@jonsonn.de>



> [...]
> everything but a service called 'SUN Remote Procedure Call' running on tcp
> 111. i'm still curious to know what this is for, and how i could maybe
> turn it off, if i don't have use for it.
> can someone help?
> i'm using 4.3-RELEASE
> [...]

This is the rpc portmapper service. You will need it, if you need to run an
NFS
server on your machine.

To turn it off for good, edit /etc/rc.conf and reboot the machine:

portmap_enable="NO"             # Run the portmapper service (or NO).

Instead of rebooting, you can of course just 'killall portmap' (as root).

Note that this will stop the NFS server daemon from working (you will not be
able
to export file systems). You don't need the portmapper for accessing
NFS-exported
filesystems on other machines.

See also: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/nfs.html


Greetings,

Michael Nottebrock


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