portmap-5beta
Introduction to portmap
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.
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Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/portmap_5beta.tar.gz
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Download size: 20 KB
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Estimated Disk space required: 250 KB
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Estimated build time: 0.03 SBU
Installation of portmap
Install portmap with the following commands:
patch -Np1 -i ../portmap-5beta-compilation-fixes-2.patch &&
patch -Np1 -i ../portmap-5beta-glibc-errno-fix.patch &&
make &&
make install
![[Note]](../images/note.png)
Note
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.
Configuring portmap
Install the /etc/rc.d/init.d/portmap init script included in the blfs-bootscripts-5.1 package.
make install-portmap
Contents
The portmap package contains portmap, pmap_dump and pmap_set.