csj said: > So it seems something called portmapper isn't getting > restarted. Should it be started in the place? Is this a security > issue? Or should I just ignore the whole thing?
I noticed this on one of my debian boxes I was securing last week, it looks like portmap is started in /etc/rcS.d, so when the system comes back to the default runlevel scripts in this directory may not(probably don't) get executed. Not sure why this is, probably to make portmap available very early in the boot process for something like NIS. I don't think it's a security issue, though depending on your config you may want to have portmap start out of /etc/rc2.d or whichever your default runlevel is if its important to you. I think the start-stop-daemon system may prevent a 2nd copy of portmap from starting so it may be harmless to do. I just tried it on my laptop here and trying to start a 2nd copy of portmap didn't do anything so it should be safe .... nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]