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
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 put
an exit as
* 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 posted some time ago, not by
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 caused
an upgrade
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