[wplug] running "lean"

Jonathan S Billings billings at negate.org
Thu Aug 21 15:09:59 EDT 2003


On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 12:46, Juan Zuluaga wrote:

> You probably won't be using an old PC as a network
> server, so you won't be needing inetd, nfsd, mountd
> and portmap. In Slackware they can be removed by
> editing the "Initialize Net Subsystem" section of
> /etc/rc.d/rc.M. Just put a # in front of the line
> which refers to rc.inet2. Other distributions have
> different startup scripts, but the principle is the
> same.
> BTW turning off these network daemons has no effect
> your network clients. You will still be able to
> telnet, ftp, mount nfs, etc.

This isn't correct.  I believe you'll need some RPC processes started up
in 'portmap' to mount remote NFS servers.

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Jonathan S Billings <billings at negate.org>
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