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Re: Portmap



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





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