** On Apr 27, w trillich scribbled: > to paraphrase bob hope's theme--thanks for the summaries! > > > > > 2206 ? S 0:00 /sbin/portmap > > Portmapper for the RPC-based services (kinda a dispatch for them) > > > portmap = something to do with Remote-Procedure-Call? > > precisely > > can i ditch it? is it essential somehow? If you use NFS or other RPC-based services then it's needed, otherwise - ditch it > > > *logd = system loggers: > > > syslogd and klogd both log important messages to your log files. > > > we need them _both_ because... well... um... > > Because syslogd handles the userspace messages, klogd handles the kernel > > messages. > > there's still a AWFUL lot of overlap! Naah :), not really :) > > > > rinetd = like inetd, but different? > > nah, a redirector - do you really need it? > > as in, for firewall/ipmasq router? (if so, yes!) Not that. It simply redirects requests from port A on your machine to port B on another machine (possibly with no routable IP). If you don't do such kind of trickery, you can get rid of it. > > how about ypbind? what's that, and why? It's a bindery service for the former YP (Yellow Pages) SUN service (now NIS, NIS+) - you probably don't need it unless you keep user's data on a NIS server. marek
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