%general-entities; ]> $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ portmap-&portmap-version; Portmap Introduction to <application>portmap</application> The portmap package is a more secure replacement for the original SUN portmap package. Portmap is used to forward RPC requests to RPC daemons such as NFS and NIS. Package information Download (HTTP): Download (FTP): Download MD5 sum: &portmap-md5sum; Download size: &portmap-size; Estimated disk space required: &portmap-buildsize; Estimated build time: &portmap-time; Additional downloads Required Patch: Required Patch: <application>portmap</application> dependencies Required Installation of <application>portmap</application> Install portmap with the following commands: patch -Np1 -i ../portmap-&portmap-version;-compilation_fixes-3.patch && patch -Np1 -i ../portmap-&portmap-version;-glibc_errno_fix-1.patch && make Now, as the root user: make install The above installation places executable portmap in /sbin. You may choose to move the file to /usr/sbin. If you do, remember to modify the bootscript also. Configuring <application>portmap</application> Boot script Install the /etc/rc.d/init.d/portmap init script included in the package. portmap make install-portmap Contents Installed Programs Installed Libraries Installed Directories pmap_dump, pmap_set and portmap None None Short Descriptions pmap_dump saves the port mapping table to an ASCII file. pmap_dump pmap_set restores the port mapping table from an ASCII file. pmap_set portmap is an RPC port mapper. portmap