From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 21 2:53:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from giroc.albury.net.au (giroc.albury.NET.AU [203.15.244.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3008F37B87F for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 02:53:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nicks@giroc.albury.net.au) Received: (from nicks@localhost) by giroc.albury.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA77112; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 19:52:53 +1000 (EST) Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 19:52:53 +1000 From: Nick Slager To: Massimo De Giorgi Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sunrpc service on port 111 Message-ID: <20000721195253.A76156@albury.net.au> References: <000301bff2f8$6498a600$4ab82397@oemcomputer> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <000301bff2f8$6498a600$4ab82397@oemcomputer>; from madg66@libero.it on Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 11:43:41AM +0200 X-Homer: Whoohooooooo! Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thus spake Massimo De Giorgi (madg66@libero.it): > What is that sunrpc service on port 111 for ? > How can I enable/disable it ? It's portmap, and is required if you run any software that makes RPC calls (eg NFS). If you don't need it, you can disable it by putting portmap_enable="NO" in /etc/rc.conf. Nick. -- From a Sun Microsystems bug report (#4102680): "Workaround: don't pound on the mouse like a wild monkey." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message