Jennifer,
I would have to say that Kmail has nothing to do with it, since portmap is
not needed for pop3 / imap / sendmail / postfix. In fact, you do not need
to run portmap if you are not running nfs / nis AFAIK (nfs is roughly the
unix equivalent to samba, nis is the equivalent to a primary domain
controller for NT--central server for managing user accounts across
multiple machines). You should be able to turn off portmap entirely
without any ill effects.
Michael
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Michael Viron
Registered Linux User #81978
Senior Systems & Administration Consultant
Web Spinners, University of West Florida
At 09:51 AM 07/31/2001 -0700, jennifer wrote:
>Hi:
>
>I am frequently reinstalling Lm8 for various reasons,
>but I have noticed that on 2 occasions my system
>"hangs" while "halting" the portmap services on every
>shutdown. On both of these occasions I chose to use
>Kmail as opposed to Netscape mail.
>
>In short, my question is this...could someone give me
>a base understanding of portmap services and whether
>it is reasonable for me to blame kmail for these
>portmap shutdown errors? Is there a portmap or
>shutdown log somewhere that might also assit me in
>fixing/avoiding this problem?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
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