Brian wrote:
On Fri 24 Jul 2009 at 19:15:45 +0100, AG wrote:
Also, although I was under the impression that the portmap service was
not enabled at boot up, it would appear that it is running in the
background. I recall that portmap used to be a security risk, but is
this still the case and should I be concerned?
If you remain concerned:
dpkg-reconfigure portmap
Brian
Thanks for the advice. I have linked it back to 127.0.0.1 as default.
This would suggest however that should I wish to run NFS then I would
need to re-enable portmap, so I'll bear that in mind for future reference.
Much obliged.
AG
