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Re: what's the portmap daemon do?



On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 06:39:56PM +1030, David Purton wrote:
> just wondering whether I need the portmap daemon running or not.
> 
> from what I can gather it has something to do with nfs, which I don't
> need.

You got it.  The portmapper is used by things like NFS and NIS.  If you
don't use those then you're safe not running it.

noah

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