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Sun RPC name server

  320  ?  S    0:00 portmap

This process provides remote proceedure call function mapping. It is only needed for RPC based services like NFS. It should be disabled by removing /etc/rc.d/init.d/portmap


Michael C. Richardson
1998-11-15