[ale] unidentified processes

[jbwellsiv at yahoo.com (John Wells)]

In addition to ftp and ssh, I have two processes
running on ports 111 and 1024.  They both seem to work
with rpc, and are the portmapper and rpc.statd
respectively.

Can I disable these processes without any effect to my
system?  If so, I assume I just remove the links to
the startup scripts from my runlevel's startup
directory.

Also, how insecure is it to run ftp on my
router/firewall box?

Thanks,
John

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