28 Jan
2004
28 Jan
'04
6:53 a.m.
On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 09:19:31PM +0100, Michael Scherer wrote:
On Tuesday 27 January 2004 20:39, Eric Dondelinger
wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Serge Marelli wrote:
>> OK, so I'm paranoid...
>> Interesting ports on $MYHOST ($MYIPADDRESS):
>> Port State Service
>> 111/tcp open sunrpc
>> I don't see what I might be doing with
Sun's RPC and wish to
>> disable this (any hint welcome).
> RPC -> portmap Since my Gentoo runs fine
without this service, I
> guess you won't need it, unless you need NFS or somesuch.
one service that use rpc is fam, to monitor directory.
kde can take
advantage of this, but it work fine without it.
Using FAM is mainly a performance optimisation, AFAIK.
On a related note, Debian is on the verge of changing the default
behaviour of portmap to listening only on localhost, no remote IP. At
last.
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0401/msg01512.html
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Lionel