On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 04:46, W. Michael Petullo wrote:
> > portmap has been useless on 95% on the servers I've installed, since those
> > servers didn't use NFS, NIS, etc. So removing portmap is one of the rutine
> > post-installation tasks for me; I bet I'm not the only one. Hence, I
> > suggest that portmap _not_ be part of a "minimal install" installation.
> >
> > Anyways:
> > On desktop systems, I can't get rid of portmap because fam needs it.
>
> It does not seem that gamin, fam's replacement, requires portmap.
> Is this true?
Yes. Gamin is a per-user process. So, not only does it not use portmap,
it also works with selinux.
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