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Re: What's portmap?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Morrissey)
Fri Nov 29 10:42:46 1996
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 10:40:19 -0500 (EST)
From: John Morrissey <john@rpa.net>
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> What is it?
>
> [vlad@borg nsmail]$ whatis portmap
> portmap: nothing appropriate
> [vlad@borg nsmail]$ man portmap
> No manual entry for portmap
>
> So, I decided to execute it (as a user!) and it cut off all my network
> connections such as eth0 and ppp0. What gives? ppp0 was established
> by me as a user but eth0 by root on a startup.
Take a look in /usr/doc/portmap-4.0-3. There's some short docs there
about what portmap does, etc.
John
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