Disabling NFS stuff
John Wendel
john.wendel at metnet.navy.mil
Thu Aug 12 18:49:57 UTC 2004
On Thursday 12 August 2004 11:36 am, netmask wrote:
> > According to webmin, these are the services related to NFS:
> > netfs
> > nfslock
> > rpcgssd
> > rpcidmapd
> > rpcsvcgssd
> > portmap
> >
> > But I'm curious if those services will be used by something else
> > not NFS related ?
> > Especially portmap. Do I need this if NFS is disabled ?
>
> It'll be safe (and recommended) to disable all of those.. FAM
> needs portmap.. but not much utilizes FAM today.. Maybe in the GUI
> world it does. Anyone?
Things that use fam usually have a less efficient fall-back if fam is
not running. I don't run fam (or portmap) and things still work.
Regards,
John Wendel
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