Re: what is portmap?

2001-06-02 Thread Colin Watson
will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 01:32:28PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: >> If you're not using NFS or NIS then you can safely remove it. Those are >> the 2 main services that need it. >> >> Don't use update-rc.d remove, though. If you ever upgrade your system

Re: what is portmap?

2001-06-02 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 01:59:40AM -0500, will trillich wrote: > i spoze i should've been more clear-- > > is there a debian-friendly way to permanently disable > a startup (/etc/init.d/*) service so's some future > "apt-get dist-upgrade" doesn't resurrect it from the grave? > >

Re: what is portmap?

2001-06-02 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 10:51:37PM -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote: > On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 12:00:29AM -0500, will trillich wrote: > > is there a DEBIAN-happy way to permanently remove an > > /etc/init.d/* service? this wholesale 'rm' stuff sounds hacky > > for such a streamlined apt-friendly distrib

Re: what is portmap?

2001-06-02 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 12:00:29AM -0500, will trillich wrote: > On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 01:32:28PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > > On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 08:11:25PM +0600, V.Suresh wrote: > > > What is the portmap process meant for? Shall I safely > > >update-rc.d remove it? > > > >

Re: what is portmap?

2001-06-02 Thread will trillich
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 01:32:28PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 08:11:25PM +0600, V.Suresh wrote: > > What is the portmap process meant for? Shall I safely > > update-rc.d remove it? > > If you're not using NFS or NIS then you can safely remove it. Those are

Re: what is portmap?

2001-05-17 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 08:11:25PM +0600, V.Suresh wrote: > What is the portmap process meant for? Shall I safely >update-rc.d remove it? If you're not using NFS or NIS then you can safely remove it. Those are the 2 main services that need it. Don't use update-rc.d remove, though.

what is portmap?

2001-05-17 Thread V.Suresh
What is the portmap process meant for? Shall I safely update-rc.d remove it? -V.Suresh. Sureshvuserssourceforgenet Http://www16.brinkster.com/vsuresh -- ---Powered by Debian Potato--- 8:10pm up 3 min, 2 users, load average: 0.03,