From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Oct 8 3:33:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from static.unixfreak.org (static.unixfreak.org [63.198.170.139]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6592E37B66C; Sun, 8 Oct 2000 03:33:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: by static.unixfreak.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9E06D1F1C; Sun, 8 Oct 2000 03:33:51 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: portman In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.20001008180845.013da4c0@smtp.magix.com.sg> "from Spades at Oct 8, 2000 06:08:45 pm" To: Spades Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 03:33:51 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd , questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Dima Dorfman Reply-To: dima@unixfreak.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL82 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Message-Id: <20001008103351.9E06D1F1C@static.unixfreak.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Is portmap essential to a system? If you are using RPC (NFS, NIS, r* commands, etc.), yes. > > Can i do without it? If you're not using RPC it isn't needed. See above. > > My portmap loads on startup..how to disable it? Add: portmap_enable="NO" to your /etc/rc.conf and reboot. Or use `killall -TERM portmap` if you don't want to reboot (you still have to add the above entry to rc.conf to avoid having it restart when you do). Hope this helps -- Dima Dorfman Finger dima@unixfreak.org for my public PGP key. "The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost." -- Gilbert K. Chesterton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message