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
