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: 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 put an exit as

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 posted some time ago, not by

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 caused an upgrade