[Rule-list] What is sunrpc?
Michael Fratoni
mfratoni at tuxfan.homeip.net
Tue Jul 23 04:45:44 EEST 2002
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On Monday 22 July 2002 02:42 pm, Marco Fioretti wrote:
> Hello,
>
> playing with my machine (RH 7.3) I just realized that there is an open
> port I didn't know:
>
> [root at polaris root]# nmap -sT localhost
> [snip]
> 111/tcp open sunrpc
> [snip]
>
> Do you know what service this is, and if there is any reason to leave
> it open/running on a typical RULE box?
Recent versions of KDE (as well as gnome, I believe), use sgi_fam via
xinetd. sgi_fam is a file monitoring daemon, and it needs the portmap
service running to function.
I found this because the first thing I normally do on a new install is
shut down portmap. This caused errors from sgi_fam when xinetd was
reloaded.
I have one machine with both portmap and sgi_fam disabled, and it doesn't
appear to have caused any problems.
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