-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Olaf Dietsche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jussi Ekholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> rpcinfo: can't contact portmapper: RPC: Remote system error \ >> - Connection refused >> >> The same answer as a luser and as a root. What should I deduct from >> this? It's just so weird as I'm not running NFS, NIS or any other >> thingie that should use this port... > > This means portmap isn't running. Connection refused means nothing > listens on port 111. So, whatever is trying to contact port 111, > there's no reason to be concerned.
That's good to hear, thanks. > This could be valid requests from programs trying to contact NIS > before DNS, however. Look at /etc/nsswitch.conf, wether NIS is > mentioned. Yes, NIS is mentioned: $ grep -i nis /etc/nsswitch.conf netgroup: nis But I can't make anything out of this. I guess I'll have to read about portmapper to learn a bit about it -- at the moment, I'm completely ignorant as I haven't had the need for it or anything. Still, thanks for the help and your suggestions; the fact, that nothing listens on port 111 makes me feel a little bit better, and your sentence "there's no reason to be concerned" makes me feel even better. :-) Of course, a Paranoid Android should still think, that you belong to a secret group government has put up to extract information of my daily use of it... Thanks! - -- Jussi Ekholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | <http://erppimaa.ihku.org/> | <0x1410081E> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9uvjLAtEARxQQCB4RAmdMAJ4g4EsCgsCzdKIHhnAQY/nDRVPj0ACgg7c9 LAE8Xe5ur/BrquR/PNF3T70= =9C1C -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----