Re: port 994

["andy@besy.co.uk" <andy@besy.co.uk>]

Just to mention, Courier-IMAP makes use of famd to monitor changes to 
maildir's.

Andy


Marcin Owsiany wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 09:09:31PM +0100, Pim Bliek wrote:
>
> > Thanks!
> > Hmm, that gives me this:
> >
> > # netstat -tupan | grep 988
> > tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:988           0.0.0.0:*               
> > LISTEN     812/famd
> > udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:988             0.0.0.0:*                   
> >       31340/rpc.statd
> >
> > # netstat -tupan | grep 994
> > tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:994             0.0.0.0:*               
> > LISTEN     31340/rpc.statd
> >
> > Is that dangerous? Should I switch something off?
>
>
> If you don't use NFS/RPC, switch off statd off. As for famd, I never
> really found out what is it useful for, and was giving me nothing but
> headaches (likes to cling to mount points causing "device busy" on
> umounts).
>
> Marcin