Stopping RPC

[Richard Ace]

I have been asked from a security perspective to stop the RPC Daemon.

Does anyone know what the consequence of this would be.

What hangs off it.

Any Ideas would be appreciated

Cheers

Rich

[Sridhar Bhaskarla · Accepted solution]

Hi Rich,

RPC (remote procedure calls) is used by quite a few services on the system. Some of them are in /etc/inetd.conf and are mostly commented out. The rpcd|dced daemon is used by tools like openview, omniback, measureware|perfview softwares. So, look at the documentation of your additional softwares for their dependencies on dced|rpcd.

-Sri

[Mark Grant]

I don't think you want to do this unless you don't use much in the way of network services and don't run applications like openview.

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi Rich,

NFS would be the major user of RPC.
Can stop it with
/sbin/init.d/nfs.server stop
/sbin/init.d/nfs.client stop
/sbin/init.d/nfs.core stop

Then edit /etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf & set
NFS_SERVER=0
NFS_CLIENT=0
AUTOMOUNT=0
START_MOUNTD=0
AUTOFS=0

Rgds,
Jeff

[Richard Ace]

Cheers

How do i add points ?

where is the option

Cheers for that

[Uday_S_Ankolekar]

rpc process used mostly by NFS and rpcd daemon used by openview.
If you don't need these then you can stop this by
/sbin/init.d/nfs client stop
/sbin/init.d/nfs server stop
also change flag to 0 in this file.
/etc/rconfig.d/nfsconf

you can stopopenview rpcd by
/sbin/init.d/Rpcd stop
and change flag to 0
in /etc/rc.config.d/Rcpd file

-USA..

[A. Clay Stephenson]

A really good idea is to ask the box itself what remote procedure calls are in play. Do an rpcinfo -p. Man rpcinfo for details.

[Tim D Fulford]

Clay
... thanks, I forgot that command (that is why I was looking at this thread!!)

Rich
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Regards

Tim