https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/portmap/m-p/2795457#M78978 Do you use NFS, or any of the NIS stuff?<BR /><BR />If not, then you probably don't even need 'portmap' to be running.<BR /><BR />Portmap is the RPC handler that Linux uses. If you want to firewall it out, it should be listening on TCP port 111.<BR /><BR />You should also be able to use TCP wrappers ('/etc/hosts.allow' and '/etc/hosts.deny') to manage connections to it (using 'portmap' as the service keyword). Tue, 27 Aug 2002 23:58:00 GMT Stuart Browne 2002-08-27T23:58:00Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/portmap/m-p/2795456#M78977 Aug 28 09:11:42 redhat portmap[8009]: connect from 211.231.50.23 to callit(390109): request from unauthorized host...<BR /><BR />what is the log?<BR />that log has bin logged at messages file.<BR />the ip(211.231.50.23) is irrelavant the server redhat<BR /><BR />what is portmap and what am i supposed to stop the log? Tue, 27 Aug 2002 23:39:49 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/portmap/m-p/2795456#M78977 mw_4 2002-08-27T23:39:49Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/portmap/m-p/2795457#M78978 Do you use NFS, or any of the NIS stuff?<BR /><BR />If not, then you probably don't even need 'portmap' to be running.<BR /><BR />Portmap is the RPC handler that Linux uses. If you want to firewall it out, it should be listening on TCP port 111.<BR /><BR />You should also be able to use TCP wrappers ('/etc/hosts.allow' and '/etc/hosts.deny') to manage connections to it (using 'portmap' as the service keyword). Tue, 27 Aug 2002 23:58:00 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/portmap/m-p/2795457#M78978 Stuart Browne 2002-08-27T23:58:00Z