Re: NFS portmap - is it really needed and if so where is it?

2012-03-15 Thread Dom
On 15/03/12 06:07, Bob Proulx wrote: Dom wrote: Not quite sure why this isn't a depends or suggests of the nfs server package. Perhaps someone can enlighten me? But it does. $ apt-cache show nfs-kernel-server | grep --color nfs-common Depends: libblkid1 (>= 2.16), libc6 (>= 2.3), libnf

Re: NFS portmap - is it really needed and if so where is it?

2012-03-15 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Sian Mountbatten wrote: > > I is trying to set up NFS for my LAN. The NFS-HOWTO says that portmap, > usually resident in /sbin or /usr/sbin, is essential as it has to be > started first. Well, I don't have it and it does not appear in the >

Re: NFS portmap - is it really needed and if so where is it?

2012-03-14 Thread Bob Proulx
-13.3) In recent versions it has changed dependencies from portmap to rpcbind. Not sure why or what is different between those programs but in theory they are equivalent and provide the same functionality. Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: NFS portmap - is it really needed and if so where is it?

2012-03-14 Thread Dom
On 14/03/12 18:41, Sian Mountbatten wrote: Hello All I is trying to set up NFS for my LAN. The NFS-HOWTO says that portmap, usually resident in /sbin or /usr/sbin, is essential as it has to be started first. Well, I don't have it and it does not appear in the Contents-i386.gz for s

Re: NFS portmap - is it really needed and if so where is it?

2012-03-14 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2012/3/14 Sian Mountbatten > Hello All > > I is trying to set up NFS for my LAN. The NFS-HOWTO says that portmap, > usually resident in /sbin or /usr/sbin, is essential as it has to be > started first. Well, I don't have it and it does not appear in the > Cont

NFS portmap - is it really needed and if so where is it?

2012-03-14 Thread Sian Mountbatten
Hello All I is trying to set up NFS for my LAN. The NFS-HOWTO says that portmap, usually resident in /sbin or /usr/sbin, is essential as it has to be started first. Well, I don't have it and it does not appear in the Contents-i386.gz for sid on ftp.uk.debian.org. So has it been super

Re: portmap error during upgrade from etch to lenny

2010-06-26 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Charles Blair put forth on 6/26/2010 8:35 AM: >I tried to upgrade to lenny using an ethernet connection. The > process stopped when the monitor displayed "trying to update portmap 5-26" > >After a few minutes, I pressed control-C and the upgrade seemed to >

portmap error during upgrade from etch to lenny

2010-06-26 Thread Charles Blair
I tried to upgrade to lenny using an ethernet connection. The process stopped when the monitor displayed "trying to update portmap 5-26" After a few minutes, I pressed control-C and the upgrade seemed to continue. The resulting system seems to work, but when I try to use aptit

portmap segfault?

2007-02-01 Thread Jeremy Kitchen
Howdy folks! I've been investigating an issue we're having over here and I can't seem to find anything on the web about it, so I'm asking you fine folks :) A couple of days ago one of our servers was having some strange nfs locking issues, and I noticed portmap wasn'

Re: Starting portmap daemon problem...

2005-11-22 Thread Eric P
Larry Gonzalez wrote: > On Sun, 20 Nov 2005, Eric P wrote: > >>> I'm running Etch. >>> >>> I noticed recently that the boot process gets stuck on "Starting >>> portmap daemon: portmap". >>> >>> After a few minutes, I hit

Re: Starting portmap daemon problem...

2005-11-21 Thread Larry Gonzalez
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 20 Nov 2005, Eric P wrote: I'm running Etch. I noticed recently that the boot process gets stuck on "Starting portmap daemon: portmap". After a few minutes, I hit ctrl-C and it continues booting. Any ideas? yes...

Starting portmap daemon problem...

2005-11-20 Thread Eric P
I'm running Etch. I noticed recently that the boot process gets stuck on "Starting portmap daemon: portmap". After a few minutes, I hit ctrl-C and it continues booting. Any ideas? Eric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: Portmap trouble

2005-08-22 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Andrew Diakin wrote: I don't want remove portmap, sometimes i need it for nfs and this is not best decision to install portmap every time I need it. Where I must look for startup scripts for portmap, in rc2.d/ no link to init.d/portmap Instead of completely removing the link, did yo

Re: Portmap trouble

2005-08-22 Thread Andrew Diakin
I don't want remove portmap, sometimes i need it for nfs and this is not best decision to install portmap every time I need it. Where I must look for startup scripts for portmap, in rc2.d/ no link to init.d/portmap 2005/8/22, Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On (22/08/05 21:44),

Re: Portmap trouble

2005-08-22 Thread Clive Menzies
On (22/08/05 21:44), Andrew Diakin wrote: > Hello, I remove symlink from rc2.d/, my init is 2, but after reboot > portmap was started .What I must do with this? I don't want portmap in > second level... > $ aptitude remove portmap should do the trick, or: $ aptitude purge

Portmap trouble

2005-08-22 Thread Andrew Diakin
Hello, I remove symlink from rc2.d/, my init is 2, but after reboot portmap was started .What I must do with this? I don't want portmap in second level...

Re: portmap and rpc.statd

2005-08-21 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Matthew Lenz wrote: > Are these services needed if I don't intend to use NFS on any of my > machines? Also, I do have a couple servers that need portmap (i guess some > licensing service needs it for one software package we run) but does that > also

portmap and rpc.statd

2005-08-21 Thread Matthew Lenz
Are these services needed if I don't intend to use NFS on any of my machines? Also, I do have a couple servers that need portmap (i guess some licensing service needs it for one software package we run) but does that also mean that I need statd? .. just trying to minimize the running ser

Re: How do I stop portmap from listening on port 111 on my internet connection?

2004-06-05 Thread Jerome Werner
--- On Sat 06/05, Stephen Patterson < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: From: Stephen Patterson [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2004 13:53:24 +0100 Subject: Re: How do I stop portmap from listening on port 111 on my internet connection? On Sat, 05 Jun 2004 04

Re: How do I stop portmap from listening on port 111 on my internet connection?

2004-06-05 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Sat, 05 Jun 2004 04:30:10 +0200, Jerome Werner wrote: > I'm using Debian unstable. I use gnome so I need FAM, which in turn needs portmap. > That's fine with me but I don't want portmap to listen on port 111. I > read man portmap and famd but didn't find what I wa

How do I stop portmap from listening on port 111 on my internet connection?

2004-06-04 Thread Jerome Werner
I'm using Debian unstable. I use gnome so I need FAM, which in turn needs portmap. That's fine with me but I don't want portmap to listen on port 111. I read man portmap and famd but didn't find what I was looking for? Also I don't want to just block it with a firew

Portmap/networking: shutdown issues

2003-10-09 Thread John Traill
I'm having issues cleanly shutting down my system which has an nfs mounted root file system. The Portmapper and/or network if are being closed prior to the root file system being unmounted. I've included the relevant error messages. What is the correct way of doing this ? Broadcast message fro

Re: Portmap

2002-12-02 Thread Niclas Söderlund
; > 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 O

Re: Portmap

2002-12-02 Thread nate
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

Portmap

2002-12-02 Thread Niclas Söderlund
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

Re: dpkg portmap error

2002-11-16 Thread nate
mdevin said: > /var/lib/dpkg/info/portmap.prerm: /etc/init.d/portmap: Permission denied next i would edit that script and remove references to that file and try again nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dpkg portmap error

2002-11-16 Thread mdevin
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 18:16:00 -0800, nate wrote: > mdevin said: > > > /etc/init.d/portmap: No such file or directorydpkg: warning - old > > pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 dpkg - trying script from > > the new package instead ... > > /var/lib/

Re: dpkg portmap error

2002-11-16 Thread nate
mdevin said: > /etc/init.d/portmap: No such file or directorydpkg: warning - old > pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 dpkg - trying script from > the new package instead ... > /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/prerm: /etc/init.d/portmap: No such file or > directory dpkg: error

Re: dpkg portmap error

2002-11-16 Thread Donald R. Spoon
mdevin wrote: I seem to have gotten dpkg into an inconsistent state for the portmap package. I can't install it and I can't remove it either. I have tried the following: apt-get install portmap apt-get -f install portmap apt-get remove portmap --purge apt-get install portmap --f

dpkg portmap error

2002-11-16 Thread mdevin
I seem to have gotten dpkg into an inconsistent state for the portmap package. I can't install it and I can't remove it either. I have tried the following: apt-get install portmap apt-get -f install portmap apt-get remove portmap --purge apt-get install portmap --fix-missing Should

portmap nfs/rpc ports?

2001-11-10 Thread Igor Mozetic
Can one specify/restrict the range of high numbered ports used by portmapper for nfs? I'm aware of /etc/sysctl.conf: net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = MIN MAX but I would like to force the portmapper to use ports _outside_ this range in order to close them by a (non-stateful) firewall. Please CC to

Fw: Re: Portmap?

2001-08-27 Thread Timeboy
On Monday Aug 27, 22:45 john doe wrote: >Hi. > >Just a simple question, what programs need "portmap"? > >I've tried to somehow remove it from my installation, but I have not been >able to find it. > >Thanks. Portmap is a part of netbase. You can see thi

Re: Portmap?

2001-08-27 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 08:45:48PM +, john doe wrote: > Just a simple question, what programs need "portmap"? The two main portmapper clients are NFS and NIS. > I've tried to somehow remove it from my installation, but I have not been > able to find it. `dpkg -S por

Portmap?

2001-08-27 Thread john doe
Hi. Just a simple question, what programs need "portmap"? I've tried to somehow remove it from my installation, but I have not been able to find it. Thanks. - andreas - PS. do not email me directly as I&#x

Re: Upgrade and portmap problems

2001-08-08 Thread Michael Heldebrant
What are your firewall rules set at? What do /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny look like? Is ps aux showing that portmap is running? Does /var/log/syslog have anything to say about failures to run daemons? Does /etc/resolv.conf point to static nameservers or are you dialing in with ppp and

Upgrade and portmap problems

2001-08-08 Thread Robert Martinovic
I really don't know what has happened. I upgraded my debian system last night to unstable, and when I booted today, everything seems broken. For instance, on bootup, iptables spits out a whole bunch of errors, and I get this: 'portmapper inactive - RPC services unavailable' I can log on to the ne

Re: what is portmap?

2001-06-02 Thread Colin Watson
d remove, though. If you ever upgrade your system >> it will restore all the symlinks to the default configuration. Instead >> just remove the 'S' symlinks (the ones that start portmap) by hand. >> Leave the 'K' symlinks. If you leave some symlinks in place then

Re: what is portmap?

2001-06-02 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 01:59:40AM -0500, will trillich wrote: > i spoze i should've been more clear-- > > is there a debian-friendly way to permanently disable > a startup (/etc/init.d/*) service so's some future > "apt-get dist-upgrade" doesn't resurrect it from the grave? > >

Re: what is portmap?

2001-06-02 Thread will trillich
such a streamlined apt-friendly distribution. what's the > > debian way of purging-inits-for-posterity? > > dpkg --purge > > With Potato, I seemed to remember I couldn't really get rid of the > package that contained portmap for some reason (a dependency or > something)

Re: what is portmap?

2001-06-02 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 12:00:29AM -0500, will trillich wrote: > On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 01:32:28PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > > On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 08:11:25PM +0600, V.Suresh wrote: > > > What is the portmap process meant for? Shall I safely > > &g

Re: what is portmap?

2001-06-02 Thread will trillich
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 01:32:28PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 08:11:25PM +0600, V.Suresh wrote: > > What is the portmap process meant for? Shall I safely > > update-rc.d remove it? > > If you're not using NFS or NIS then you ca

Re: what is portmap?

2001-05-17 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 08:11:25PM +0600, V.Suresh wrote: > What is the portmap process meant for? Shall I safely >update-rc.d remove it? If you're not using NFS or NIS then you can safely remove it. Those are the 2 main services that need it. Don't use update-rc.

what is portmap?

2001-05-17 Thread V.Suresh
What is the portmap process meant for? Shall I safely update-rc.d remove it? -V.Suresh. Sureshvuserssourceforgenet Http://www16.brinkster.com/vsuresh -- ---Powered by Debian Potato--- 8:10pm up 3 min, 2 users, load average: 0.03

portmap: too small RPC?

2001-04-11 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
Anybody have any thoughts on what's causing the following message and how to correct it? portmap: too small RPC reply size (0 bytes) portmap: too small RPC reply size (0 bytes) lockd_up: makesock failed, error=-5 portmap: too small RPC reply size (0 bytes) lockd_up: no pid, 2 users?? portmap

Re: Daemon mgmt was Re: turning off /sbin/portmap

2001-03-29 Thread Rick Rezinas
just about that ;) when entering a runlevel, the daemon basically goes through each file in /etc/rcx.d that starts with S and runs it like this: S90startstuff start note the start argument. Then when leaving it does the same thing with the K's saying stop. They are run in numerical order, s

Re: Daemon mgmt was Re: turning off /sbin/portmap

2001-03-29 Thread Alan Chen
Ahh, update-rc.d was what I was thinking of when I typed update-alternatives. What the sequence number do? --- Rich Puhek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also look at the update-rc.d command (see man update-rc.d for > details). > That will allow you to do things like: > > update-rc.d postres start

Re: Daemon mgmt was Re: turning off /sbin/portmap

2001-03-29 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hi All, I responded to this question and said to use 'update-alternatives' myself. I meantupdate-rc.d. Doh! Jimmy Richards On Thursday 29 March 2001 14:25, Daniel Freedman wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Mar 29, 2001, Alan Chen wrote: > > Just as an excercise to my own sys admin knowledge, I'l

Re: Daemon mgmt was Re: turning off /sbin/portmap

2001-03-29 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 11:57:54AM -0800, Alan Chen wrote: ... > update-alternatives (or was it alternatives-update) is a admin tool for > adding, removing daemons from various runlevels. No, it is for managing Debian's alternatives sytem. Like whether vim, or vi or tiny-vi should be named vi. O

Re: Daemon mgmt was Re: turning off /sbin/portmap

2001-03-29 Thread Daniel Freedman
Hi, On Thu, Mar 29, 2001, Alan Chen wrote: > Just as an excercise to my own sys admin knowledge, I'll summarize my > general knowledge and just ask if anyone has suggestions or differences > in my understanding. > > Daemons (or services) can be manually manipulated in debian using > /etc/init.d/

Re: Daemon mgmt was Re: turning off /sbin/portmap

2001-03-29 Thread Rich Puhek
Also look at the update-rc.d command (see man update-rc.d for details). That will allow you to do things like: update-rc.d postres start 3 (start postres in runlevel 3) update-rc.d postres stop 50 6 (stop postres at sequence 50 in runlevel 6) --Rich Alan Chen wrote: > > Just as an excercis

Daemon mgmt was Re: turning off /sbin/portmap

2001-03-29 Thread Alan Chen
t when booting in any > runlevel. > > Dermot > > On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 02:41:58PM +0900, Debian User wrote: > > A daemon called /sbin/portmap starts when I boot my Debian Linux > 2.2 > > system. > > > > I have searched for the script that starts /sbin/portamp whe

Re: turning off /sbin/portmap

2001-03-29 Thread Dermot Coffey
I can see a script to call it on my system in /etc/rcS.d This directory has scripts that start when booting in any runlevel. Dermot On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 02:41:58PM +0900, Debian User wrote: > A daemon called /sbin/portmap starts when I boot my Debian Linux 2.2 > system. > > I h

Re: turning off /sbin/portmap

2001-03-29 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hi There TwinSun, Try outupdate-alternatives -f portmap remove The manual way is/etc/init.d/portmap stop Hope that's what yer looking for, Jimmy Richards On 29 Mar 2001 14:41:58 +0900, Debian User wrote: > A daemon called /sbin/portmap starts when I boot my Debian L

Re: turning off /sbin/portmap

2001-03-29 Thread Nate Amsden
Debian User wrote: > > A daemon called /sbin/portmap starts when I boot my Debian Linux 2.2 > system. > > I have searched for the script that starts /sbin/portamp when my system > boots. However, I can't find it. It doesn't seem to be in rc2.d. > > Does an

turning off /sbin/portmap

2001-03-28 Thread Debian User
A daemon called /sbin/portmap starts when I boot my Debian Linux 2.2 system. I have searched for the script that starts /sbin/portamp when my system boots. However, I can't find it. It doesn't seem to be in rc2.d. Does anyone know how to make it not start upon booting?

Re: Getting rid of portmap

2001-03-16 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 09:37:00AM -0700, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: > Question --> what is the best approach to stop > portmap from running on a Debian system? IIRC, portmap is part of netbase in potato. Renaming the /etc/init.d/portmap script or removing all the start/stop links

Re: Getting rid of portmap

2001-03-16 Thread Andre Berger
* Randolph S. Kahle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 20010316 17:50 +0100: > Question --> what is the best approach to stop > portmap from running on a Debian system? Stop portmap, then rename /etc/init.d/portmap to /etc/init.d/portmap_hidden, and it won't come up again. (This was

Re: Getting rid of portmap

2001-03-16 Thread Corwin Grey
dpkg -S portmap will tell you that portmap is included in the netbase package. If you need other contents of netbase, > Question --> what is the best approach to stop > portmap from running on a Debian system? If you are hesitant to remove the symlink, edit the portmap script and pu

Getting rid of portmap

2001-03-16 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
I am converting my firewall machine to a Debian installation. I am in the process of removing unwanted services so as to lock down the machine against intrusions. I am trying to remove portmap, but this program does not seem to follow the pattern for other programs. With other program I simply

Re: portmap: which package??

2001-02-07 Thread Frank Preut
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 09:36:23PM -0500, MaD dUCK wrote: > once you have disabled portmap, please report to me whether you have > xdm delays during initlevel 3 login. if yes, then you are suffering > from the same problem that i have, namely that xdm/X and xfs don't > commun

Re: portmap: which package??

2001-02-05 Thread MaD dUCK
once you have disabled portmap, please report to me whether you have xdm delays during initlevel 3 login. if yes, then you are suffering from the same problem that i have, namely that xdm/X and xfs don't communicate via ipc but insist on rpc. and if you don't have that problem, then i

Re: portmap: which package??

2001-02-05 Thread Frank Preut
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 02:09:23PM -0800, Pann McCuaig wrote: > $ dpkg -S portmap > netbase: /sbin/portmap > netbase: /usr/share/doc/netbase/portmapper.txt.gz > netbase: /etc/init.d/portmap > netbase: /usr/share/man/man8/portmap.8.gz > > You sure as hell don't wan

Re: portmap: which package??

2001-02-05 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 22:47, Frank Preut wrote: > hello everyone, > > could someone please tell me where i can find portmap, that is, > which package contains it (i can't find a package named portmap)?? as much > as i can see i don't need it, and i would like

Re: portmap: which package??

2001-02-05 Thread MaD dUCK
fishbowl:/home/madduck# dpkg -S \*portmap\* netbase: /sbin/portmap netbase: /usr/share/doc/netbase/portmapper.txt.gz netbase: /etc/init.d/portmap netbase: /usr/share/man/man8/portmap.8.gz fishbowl:/home/madduck# so netbase is what you are looking for and it *should* be installed. martin

portmap: which package??

2001-02-05 Thread Frank Preut
hello everyone, could someone please tell me where i can find portmap, that is, which package contains it (i can't find a package named portmap)?? as much as i can see i don't need it, and i would like to get rid of it (if that is stupid for some reason, please correct me,

Re: /etc/init.d/portmap

2001-01-13 Thread Lindsay Allen
For woody users the situation is different. portmap was removed from netbase and now has its own package. So the solution is apt-get install portmap I'd like to see a warning of some sort. It took me some time to work out why nfs had stopped working and others seem to having the

Re: /etc/init.d/portmap

2001-01-13 Thread brian moore
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 01:52:14AM +0100, Sven Burgener wrote: > On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 04:34:21PM -0800, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > $ dpkg -S /etc/init.d/portmap > > netbase: /etc/init.d/portmap > > > > ?? > > Thanks for the info, but I run woody. [gimli:~] 4:

Re: /etc/init.d/portmap

2001-01-13 Thread Sven Burgener
On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 04:34:21PM -0800, Bob Nielsen wrote: > $ dpkg -S /etc/init.d/portmap > netbase: /etc/init.d/portmap > > ?? Thanks for the info, but I run woody. Cheers, Sven -- "{sum += $2} END {print sum}", said Tom awkwardly.

Re: /etc/init.d/portmap

2001-01-13 Thread Sven Burgener
On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 06:30:58PM -0600, ktb wrote: > On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 01:04:41AM +0100, Sven Burgener wrote: > > > > $ dlocate /etc/init.d/portmap > > $ dpkg -S /etc/init.d/portmap > > dpkg: /etc/init.d/portmap not found. > > > > Apparently this

Re: /etc/init.d/portmap

2001-01-13 Thread Bob Nielsen
$ dpkg -S /etc/init.d/portmap netbase: /etc/init.d/portmap ?? On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 01:04:41AM +0100, Sven Burgener wrote: > Hello > > Could anyone tell me what package this file belongs to? > > $ dlocate /etc/init.d/portmap > $ dpkg -S /etc/init.d/portmap > dpkg: /e

Re: /etc/init.d/portmap

2001-01-13 Thread ktb
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 01:04:41AM +0100, Sven Burgener wrote: > Hello > > Could anyone tell me what package this file belongs to? > > $ dlocate /etc/init.d/portmap > $ dpkg -S /etc/init.d/portmap > dpkg: /etc/init.d/portmap not found. > > Apparently this doesn't

/etc/init.d/portmap

2001-01-13 Thread Sven Burgener
Hello Could anyone tell me what package this file belongs to? $ dlocate /etc/init.d/portmap $ dpkg -S /etc/init.d/portmap dpkg: /etc/init.d/portmap not found. Apparently this doesn't belong anywhere. How did it get onto the system then? Cheers Sven -- "{sum += $2} END {print sum}&

Re: what's the portmap daemon do?

2000-12-27 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 06:39:56PM +1030, David Purton wrote: > just wondering whether I need the portmap daemon running or not. > > from what I can gather it has something to do with nfs, which I don't > need. You got it. The portmapper is used by things like NFS and NIS.

what's the portmap daemon do?

2000-12-27 Thread David Purton
Hi, just wondering whether I need the portmap daemon running or not. I confess that the man page didn't really help me. from what I can gather it has something to do with nfs, which I don't need. Today people in droves hur

Re: how to keep portmap from running?

2000-11-27 Thread Gary Hennigan
Manegold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Gary Hennigan wrote: > > In the past there have been a few security incidents with things > > associated with portmap. I definately don't run it on my 24/7 system > > that's connected to the internet. If you do use it

Re: how to keep portmap from running?

2000-11-27 Thread Manegold
; > > > bleah. how do i keep this program from starting on boot? > > > > > > > > i looked in /etc/init.d. can't even find a startup script for this > > > > thing! > > > > it's not in inetd.conf either. how does this thing get started? >

Re: how to keep portmap from running?

2000-11-27 Thread Gary Hennigan
n boot? > > > > > > i looked in /etc/init.d. can't even find a startup script for this thing! > > > it's not in inetd.conf either. how does this thing get started? > > > > > > > Have a look at /etc/init.d/portmap > > > > -

Re: how to keep portmap from running?

2000-11-23 Thread Andrej Marjan
th clustered > > computing, so you'll need to run portmap if you're using nfs, yp, or (I > > think) trying to do a beowulf-type setup. Otherwise, you probably don't > > need it. You could try doing a `rpcinfo -p localhost` to find out what > > your comput

Re: how to keep portmap from running?

2000-11-23 Thread Pollywog
On Thu, 23 Nov 2000 10:02:38 -0600 (CST), Damian Menscher said: > > Portmapper maps the RPC services to ports. The list of services it > deals with are listed in /etc/rpc. Most of them deal with clustered > computing, so you'll need to run portmap if you're using n

Re: how to keep portmap from running?

2000-11-23 Thread Damian Menscher
ion that portmapper presents some security risks > but it almost seems like I have to have it running to get other services to > work properly. Portmapper maps the RPC services to ports. The list of services it deals with are listed in /etc/rpc. Most of them deal with clustered compu

Re: how to keep portmap from running?

2000-11-23 Thread Robert A. Jacobs
* Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [231100 09:16]: > bleah. how do i keep this program from starting on boot? > > i looked in /etc/init.d. can't even find a startup script for this thing! > it's not in inetd.conf either. how does this thing get started? This is more of a question to the

Re: how to keep portmap from running?

2000-11-23 Thread Anthony Campbell
script for this thing! > > it's not in inetd.conf either. how does this thing get started? > > > > Have a look at /etc/init.d/portmap > > -- > Christoph Simon > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --- Is it a good idea to stop portmap from running? I did this a long time ag

Re: how to keep portmap from running?

2000-11-22 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >well, the thing is that /etc/init.d/portmap doesn't get run. symlinks to it >from within the rc.\.d directories do. i guess i could just blow away the >portmap script, and that might do it o

Re: how to keep portmap from running?

2000-11-22 Thread Pann McCuaig
Search the list archives. I suggested a (relatively clean) method no more than a couple of weeks ago. On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 14:59, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > bleah. how do i keep this program from starting on boot? > > i looked in /etc/init.d. can't even find a startup script for this thing!

Re: how to keep portmap from running?

2000-11-22 Thread Matthew Dalton
Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > well, the thing is that /etc/init.d/portmap doesn't get run. symlinks to it > from within the rc.\.d directories do. They're just symlinks to the files in /etc/init.d. The files in /etc/init.d *are* the ones actually being run. > i guess

Re: how to keep portmap from running?

2000-11-22 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
well, the thing is that /etc/init.d/portmap doesn't get run. symlinks to it from within the rc.\.d directories do. i guess i could just blow away the portmap script, and that might do it once and for all. but it's wierd how the thing gets run but isn't mentioned in the rc dire

Re: how to keep portmap from running?

2000-11-22 Thread Pollywog
started? > I have a portmap script in /etc/init.d Are you sure you don't have one? Just put exit 0 on a line by itself near the top of the script, after the #!/bin/sh That will keep it from starting. -- Andrew

Re: how to keep portmap from running?

2000-11-22 Thread Christoph Simon
does this thing get started? > Have a look at /etc/init.d/portmap -- Christoph Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- ^X^C q quit :q ^C end x exit ZZ ^D ? help shit .

how to keep portmap from running?

2000-11-22 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
bleah. how do i keep this program from starting on boot? i looked in /etc/init.d. can't even find a startup script for this thing! it's not in inetd.conf either. how does this thing get started? pete

Re: [Q] what do these portmap log entries mean?

2000-08-25 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > "Nate" == Nate Amsden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Nate> Michael Banck wrote: >> huh, my protscan shows this: >> >> Interesting ports on Blackbird (127.0.0.1): >> PortState Protocol Service >> 9 open

Re: [Q] what do these portmap log entries mean?

2000-08-24 Thread Nate Amsden
Michael Banck wrote: > Darkstar:~# nmap 62.244.87.10 > > Starting nmap V. 2.12 by Fyodor ([EMAIL PROTECTED], www.insecure.org/nmap/) > Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (0 hosts up) scanned in 0 seconds > > OK. I am relieved. A remote portscan from grc.com didn't show up anything > eighter. >

Re: [Q] what do these portmap log entries mean?

2000-08-24 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 02:40:46PM -0700, Nate Amsden wrote: > > huh, my protscan shows this: > > > > Interesting ports on Blackbird (127.0.0.1): [a lotta interesting ports] > > first of all, what are these "unknown" entries about? these ports are > > not listed in /etc/services. > > What i do is

Re: [Q] what do these portmap log entries mean?

2000-08-24 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 11:59:00PM -0700, Nate Amsden wrote: > > > What ports did you scan? i usually specify -p 1-65535 when using nmap. > > if it were my machine i would for sure firewall all those > > services(except smtp). > > huh, my protscan sho

Re: [Q] what do these portmap log entries mean?

2000-08-24 Thread Nate Amsden
Michael Banck wrote: > huh, my protscan shows this: > > Interesting ports on Blackbird (127.0.0.1): > PortState Protocol Service > 9 opentcpdiscard > 13 opentcpdaytime > 21 opentcpftp > 23 opentcptelne

Re: [Q] what do these portmap log entries mean?

2000-08-24 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 11:59:00PM -0700, Nate Amsden wrote: > > My latest port scan (nmap running through all -s options) results show [port scan results] > > And I'm behind a firewall, though my machine is not firewalled itself, > > not yet at least. > > What ports did you scan? i usually spec

Re: [Q] what do these portmap log entries mean?

2000-08-24 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Nate Amsden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > > > My latest port scan (nmap running through all -s options) results show > > > > 9 opentcp discard > > 13 opentcp daytime > > 25 opentcp smtp > > 37 o

Re: [Q] what do these portmap log entries mean?

2000-08-24 Thread Nate Amsden
Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > My latest port scan (nmap running through all -s options) results show > > 9 opentcp discard > 13 opentcp daytime > 25 opentcp smtp > 37 opentcp time > 111 opentcp sun

Re: [Q] what do these portmap log entries mean?

2000-08-24 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Nate Amsden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > > Aug 24 12:38:01 bilbo portmap[27641]: connect from 172.16.x.y to > > callit(390109): request from unauthorized host > > Aug 24 12:38:04 bilbo portmap[27641]: connect from 172.16.x.y to >

Re: [Q] what do these portmap log entries mean?

2000-08-23 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
n Version: 1:0.1.9.1-1, no > worries, you can just laugh the scan off (if that's what it was) > > > On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 12:49:13PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > :Dear all, > : > :I've been seeing entries like below in my logs for a while. > : > : Aug 24 12:38

Re: [Q] what do these portmap log entries mean?

2000-08-23 Thread Nate Amsden
Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > Aug 24 12:38:01 bilbo portmap[27641]: connect from 172.16.x.y to > callit(390109): request from unauthorized host > Aug 24 12:38:04 bilbo portmap[27641]: connect from 172.16.x.y to > callit(390109): request from unauthorized host looks suspicious.. &

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