Suggestion for an altered portmap package

W. Michael Petullo mike at flyn.org
Thu Aug 12 02:46:30 UTC 2004


> portmap has been useless on 95% on the servers I've installed, since those
> servers didn't use NFS, NIS, etc. So removing portmap is one of the rutine
> post-installation tasks for me; I bet I'm not the only one. Hence, I
> suggest that portmap _not_ be part of a "minimal install" installation.
> 
> Anyways:
> On desktop systems, I can't get rid of portmap because fam needs it.

It does not seem that gamin, fam's replacement, requires portmap.
Is this true?

-- 
Mike

:wq





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