Re: portmap and rpc.statd

[Alvin Oga <aoga@mail.Linux-Consulting.com>]

On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Matthew Lenz wrote:

> Are these services needed if I don't intend to use NFS on any of my 
> machines?  Also, I do have a couple servers that need portmap (i guess some 
> licensing service needs it for one software package we run) but does that 
> also mean that I need statd? .. just trying to minimize the running services 
> on these boxes.

nope .. none of um is needed

and while you're at it:
	- put ALL:ALL in /etc/hosts.deny
	- turn on what you want in /etc/hosts.allow

	and if you want, there's about a weeks worth of patches/hardening 
	too

c ya
alvin