Date: 31 Oct 2001 16:06:21 -0800 From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) To: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@atkielski.com> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: What does portmap do? Message-ID: <inbsine4n6.sin@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <004101c16254$10ed3300$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <004101c16254$10ed3300$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
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"Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@atkielski.com> 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
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