Niclas Söderlund said: > Hi, > > what exactly IS portmap? Stripping down a mailserver to its bare minimum > and is a little puzzled about the man description. It contemplates > "programs" as a term in general and is not very specific for someone not > that experienced with the internals of Linux and other OS's. used for NIS, NFS, and other RPC services, very rarely used on a mail server. nate