On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 08:11:23PM +0100, Roberto Diaz wrote: > > Interesting ports on localhost (127.0.0.1): > > Port State Protocol Service > > 22 open tcp ssh > > 111 open tcp sunrpc > > > > I K'd out S10portmap in the /etc/rc0.d/ directory, but port 111 is still > > open. I can remove portmap from /etc/init.d/, but how big a concern is > > this port? I've got hosts.deny set to repel anything not using ssh. > > Well is a corcern since bugs can be possible.. and you need the portmap in > order to run things like postgresql.. but it is wrapped as you very well
PostgreSQL listens on 5432 (if you have tcp turned on). What would it need rpc for? I have portmap turned off here and never had a problem with PostgreSQL... -- Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
