From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 25 05:58:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA13418 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 05:58:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.netcetera.dk (root@sleipner.netcetera.dk [194.192.207.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA13198 for ; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 05:57:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from leifn@image.dk) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by mail.netcetera.dk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with UUCP id OAA17335 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 14:55:04 +0100 Received: by swimsuit.swimsuit.roskildebc.dk (0.99.970109) id AA03831; 25 Feb 98 14:57:01 +0100 From: leifn@image.dk (Leif Neland) Date: 25 Feb 98 14:32:25 +0100 Subject: inetd and portmapper Message-ID: Organization: Fidonet: Swimsuit Safari. Go for it. To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am a little unsure about what inetd and portmapper does. As far as I know, inetd looks at a bunch of ports, described in /etc/inetd.conf, and if somebody connects to say port 119, it starts the popper program. (The number is probably wrong, but the principle..) What does portmapper then do? Leif Neland leifn@image.dk --- |Fidonet: Leif Neland 2:234/49 |Internet: leifn@image.dk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message