What starts rpc.mount?

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Fri Aug 22 16:47:15 UTC 2008


On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 09:33:54AM -0400, William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:
> What starts rpc.mount?  I rebooted a server last night and rpc.mount
> started up, taking port 993 from dovecot and thus borking the ability to
> retrieve email.  I found the offending process with lsof -i, but I don't
> use rpc, so I want this to never happen again.  Any suggestions?

portmap maybe, nfs-common, not sure.

portmap is evil.  dynamic port assignment through portmapper.  What a
stupid idea.

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