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Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 13:43:39 -0700
From: "Crist J . Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net>
To: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>
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Subject: Re: portman
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On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 03:33:51AM -0700, Dima Dorfman wrote:
> > Is portmap essential to a system?
> 
> If you are using RPC (NFS, NIS, r* commands, etc.), yes.

Small point, portmap has nothing to do with the r* (rsh, rlogin, rcp,
rexec) commands.
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Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@alum.mit.edu


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