Re: [PLUG] sunrpc..a few questions

[Chet the Quick-drying Nairobian Death Monkey <mortis@voicenet.com>]

> This all great...but which services consitute "sunrpc" and what are the
> effects if I shut them down.


'sunrpc' is just a port designation, it corresponds to port 111 tcp/udp.  
It's handled by portmapper, which maps RPC [remote procedure call] program
numbers to higher numbered ports.  RPC is a facility for invoking 
functions [code] on remote machines -- of which, I think the NFS system
uses RPC to perform some of it's communications, so it requires portmapper
to be running to function correctly (NFSD needs it I think, but possibly
not the client).


k

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