its part of netbase, easiest way to disable it i think is to just mv /sbin/portmap /sbin/portmap-DISABLED
since there are still some important things in netbase it seems. either that or firewall port 111. or both you can never be too paranoid. nate ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, rizan wrote: > hi, > > I just couldn't figure out how to stop portmap from running on my debian > box everytime it reboots. I am very sure it is not controlled by any TCP > wrappers and i have checked it's > runlevel directory but I couldn't find portmap....btw, it's running on > run level 2 > > please help. > > thankz > rizan > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >