Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 03:33:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org> To: Spades <spades@galaxynet.org> Cc: freebsd <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org>, questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portman Message-ID: <20001008103351.9E06D1F1C@static.unixfreak.org> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.20001008180845.013da4c0@smtp.magix.com.sg> "from Spades at Oct 8, 2000 06:08:45 pm"
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> Is portmap essential to a system? If you are using RPC (NFS, NIS, r* commands, etc.), yes. > > Can i do without it? If you're not using RPC it isn't needed. See above. > > My portmap loads on startup..how to disable it? Add: portmap_enable="NO" to your /etc/rc.conf and reboot. Or use `killall -TERM portmap` if you don't want to reboot (you still have to add the above entry to rc.conf to avoid having it restart when you do). Hope this helps -- Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org> Finger dima@unixfreak.org for my public PGP key. "The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost." -- Gilbert K. Chesterton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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