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portmap

Camilo Rostoker

2004-12-01, 2:45 am

Hi,

I'd like to turn of portmap but I'm not sure if anything on my system
relies on it. Is there any way to tell if any programs or services on
my system are using RPC, without disabling portmap and looking for
obvious errors? I have a new install of Debian Woody with basic
services needed for webhosting such as apache, mysql, qmail, sqwebmail,
vpopmail, etc. No NFS or Samba or any fancing networking services. Can
I do without portmap?

Cheers,
Cam

Jan Braun

2004-12-03, 8:45 pm

Camilo Rostoker schrob:
> I'd like to turn of portmap but I'm not sure if anything on my system
> relies on it. Is there any way to tell if any programs or services on
> my system are using RPC, without disabling portmap and looking for
> obvious errors?

Try "apt-get -s remove portmap". If that wants to uninstall anything
besides portmap, then that anything needs portmap.

Welcome to the wonders of apt

Jan

Neil Woods

2004-12-04, 7:45 am

On Wed, Dec 01 2004, Camilo Rostoker wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to turn of portmap but I'm not sure if anything on my system
> relies on it. Is there any way to tell if any programs or services on
> my system are using RPC, without disabling portmap and looking for
> obvious errors? I have a new install of Debian Woody with basic
> services needed for webhosting such as apache, mysql, qmail,
> sqwebmail, vpopmail, etc. No NFS or Samba or any fancing networking
> services. Can I do without portmap?

Probably.

You can issue the command ''rpcinfo -p'' which should tell you which
services are using remote procedure calls.

--
Neil

Camilo Ellis Rostoker

2004-12-05, 8:45 pm

Hi,

Thanks, thats just what I was looking for. Appears that onlyu
portmapper and its status daemon (rpc.statd) is using rpc so looks like
it's safe to turn it off.

Cheers,
Cam

Neil Woods wrote:

>
> Probably.
>
> You can issue the command ''rpcinfo -p'' which should tell you which
> services are using remote procedure calls.
>
>