Do I need portmap? also Q on identd

[Derek D. Martin]

David Kramer said:

> If I don't know of any rpc stuff I'm doing, do I need portmap?

If you're not using RPC, nope.


> Also, identd (which I think I need to do irc) seems to be running one
> master and three slaves.  /etc/identd.conf does not appear to have an
> option to control the number of copies running.  How do I do that?

Disable the service from starting at boot time (chkconfig --del identd
on RH compatible) and uncomment the auth entry from inetd.conf.  Then
it will only run when someone makes an ident query.


> And will irc still work if I have it return uid instead of name?

Er, got no idea there...


-- 
Derek Martin
Senior System Administrator
Mission Critical Linux
martin at MissionCriticalLinux.com

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