Hi,

thank you. Didnt want to strip it out until I had some light shed on what it was.

A quick check just now "rpcinfo -p" showed that the only service listening and up was the portmapper itself..

Thanks,

Niclas

At 09:32 2002-12-02, nate wrote:
Niclas Söderlund said:
> Hi,
>
> what exactly IS portmap? Stripping down a mailserver to its bare minimum
> and is a little puzzled about the man description. It contemplates
> "programs" as a term in general and is not very specific for someone not
> that experienced with the internals of Linux and other OS's.

used for NIS, NFS, and other RPC services, very rarely used on
a mail server.

nate




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