Re: portmap on debian
if it tries to load that binary, and it doesnt exist, it cant load it
..safer then erasing it ..
adding exit 0 at the top may prevent other things inside netbase that may
or may not be important to your installation from loading. it looks to me
that all teh default firewall rules are in netbase(including the "spoof
protection")
nate
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On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Pollywog wrote:
>
> On 29-Oct-99 aphro wrote:
> > its part of netbase, easiest way to disable it i think is to just
> >
> > mv /sbin/portmap /sbin/portmap-DISABLED
> >
> > since there are still some important things in netbase it seems. either
> > that or firewall port 111.
>
> Can you disable it by just changing the name?
> I thought you could add 'exit 0' to the top of the script, after the
> #!/bin/sh
>
>
> How would just changing the name disable it?
>
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