|> 1. run /etc/init.d/portmapper stop |> 2. put "exit 0" (without quotes) as the first uncommented line in |> /etc/init.d/portmapper |> 3. If apt/dselect/dpkg every ask you to update that script, keep |> the one you modified (the new one will be |> /etc/init.d/portmapper.dpkg-dist)
This will work for potato (but is there any reason not to use update-rc.d?). In slink, though, there is no separate script to start portmapper, so you have to comment out the relevant lines in /etc/init.d/netbase. This has worked fine for me. Jim