Greetings, Yes, portmapper has something to do with NIS. If you want to stop it from running edit /etc/init.d/mountnfs.sh and comment out the line that starts it.
As always, my generic advise about setting up IPTABLES applied here. Once you have set up iptables you can block what services are accessible. Regardless of whether they happen to be running. Regards, -- Excuse #156: Just type \'mv * /dev/null\'. Phil PGP/GPG Key: http://www.zionlth.org/~plhofmei/ wget -O - http://www.zionlth.org/~plhofmei/key.txt | gpg --import XP Source Code: #include <win2k.h> #include <extra_pretty_things_with_bugs.h> #include <more_bugs.h> #include <require_system_activation.h> #include <phone_home_every_so_often.h> #include <remote_admin_abilities_for_MS.h> #include <more_restrictive_EULA.h> #include <sell_your_soul_to_MS_EULA.h> //os_ver="Windows 2000" os_ver="Windows XP" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]