portmap: portmap (a daemon to manage RPC connections) portmap: portmap: The portmapper (/sbin/rpc.portmap) is a network daemon used to manage portmap: connections to RPC services. Daemons that offer RPC services (such portmap: as the daemons for NFS) tell the portmapper on what port they listen. portmap: Unlike the services registered with the inetd, RPC network port portmap: numbers may change each time the system is booted. portmap: portmap: The portmapper is required to use NFS or other RPC services. portmap: portmap: