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Re: What's portmap?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mick Ghazey)
Fri Nov 29 14:14:07 1996
From: "Mick Ghazey" <mghazey@miso.lowdown.com>
To: Borg <vladimip@iceonline.com>, redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 14:11:07 +0000
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On 28 Nov 96 at 14:51, Borg wrote:
> 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.
>
Portmap is used by NFS. Other than that I have no idea. :)
Mick
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