Quoting Alex Pankratz <alexpankratz@gmail.com>: [snip] > Did, and that made both 111 and 699 not show up in nmap scan. sweet, > thanks Jeffery. I could swear that in the past I saw 111 open and I > sort of ignored it, why would 699 be open now, and then closed? why is > statd running, i dont use NFS. > There are several services that use portmapper. Generally it has to be ripped out manually after a clean install (at least for Debian and SuSE). Jeffrey