you can usually turn it off, of cource it depends on what you're using =P
portmap is needed for nfs, nis, and a few other big things, it's also pure
evil, but that's another story. If you do an "rpcinfo -p" on your machine
and you only get:
program vers proto port
100000 2 tcp 111 portmapper
100000 2 udp 111 portmapper
then you can turn portmap off, since nothing is registered with it.
On Friday 22 March 2002 12:22 pm, Vernon wrote:
> hey all,
>
> Not sure if this is the right place to post this question (I'm new here)
> but I was wondering if anyone could tell me if it is safe to turn off
> portmap on my Linux Red Hat box. As far as I know I am not using RPC for
> anything and therefore not necessary. Am I incorrect?
>
> Thanks
