Re: Can I turn off portmap?
In article <cistron.012301bdfc08$c5dbdba0$071b9a8e@PPC1.genxl.com>,
Peter Iannarelli <Peter.Iannarelli@genxl.com> wrote:
>You can turn off the portmapper vi /etc/init.d/xinetd stop or
>/etc/init.d/inetd stop. This however is not recommend because
>any requests comming in on ports will not be serviced. Note.
>portmaps are used to save system resources. It starts up
>listening daemons on an as required basis as opposed to
>having those daemon running and listening at all times.
That's not true. You're turning off inetd here, not the portmapper.
Those 2 are seperate programs with seperate functionality. If you
turn off inetd, you won't be able to log in with telnet/rlogin anymore!
To turn of the portmapper, just comment it out in /etc/init.d/netbase
Mike.
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