[olug] uneeded services

[Tim Russell]

>From: "mesc" <mescie at home.com>
>Subject: Re: [olug] uneeded services
>

> Lol  I hear you on the winblows,I knew you didn't hafta reboot linux  but
I
> didn't know the command to restart the process.Portmap starts on boot on
my
> box which I see is related to sunrpc.which I want to turn off.Would it
hurt me
> to turn portmap off at boot?My machine is just a run of the mill  home pc
with
> a cable modem.(no servers running in other words)

   It should be fine to shut portmap off - it's mainly used for NFS.  You
can shut it off now with an "/etc/rc.d/init.d/portmap stop" and kill it
permanently by removing the symlinks to it in the rcX.d directory for the
runlevel you're using - normally 3 and 5.

Tim #1



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