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To: Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@cdsnet.net>
Subject: Re: Any good reason to run portmap on a non NFS'd/RPC'd machine? 
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Date: Thu, 02 Jan 1997 20:28:08 -0700
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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In message <Pine.NEB.3.95.970102144854.14712M-100000@mail.cdsnet.net> Jaye Mathisen writes:
: I'm not using YP or any of that stuff.  If not, then it seems like
: something that would be good to turn into a sysconfig variable.

There is no good reason to run portmapper unless you are using RPC
based services.  I don't run it on rover except when I have to do NFS
things....

Warner