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. If you don't use those then you're safe not running it. noah -- _______________________________________________________ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html
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