Re: portmap needed ?

From: bruce (losthalo@Bast.debian.org)
Date: 12/31/01 

From: losthalo@Bast.debian.org (bruce)
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 16:23:50 GMT

In article <slrna311b4.p99.hal@feenix.burgiss.net>, Hal Burgiss wrote:
>Not AFAIK...certainly not unless there is some app running that uses
>both.

>> The netbase/portmapper.txt.gz says
>> "If you kill the portmap process without saving its tables you will have
>> to reboot the machine." Why? What are they talking about?

>Dunno, but if you shut it down properly, this is not a problem. Use
>whatever tools your distro has for stopping services.

I'm running a Debian Slink system, and regularly kill my portmapper with
kill -9, and have never seen any problems.

However, I'm interested in removing it from the boot scripts, so that I don't
need it for anything. Any advice on how to go about this?

Bruce
losthalo{at}nerg.net

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