The portmapper on FreeBSD is called portmap
.
The man page on my system says it is a "DARPA port
to RPC program number mapper". It is the first security hole you'll
open reading this HOWTO. Description of how to close one of the holes
is in
the security section. Which I,
again, urge you to read.
Start the portmapper. It's either called portmap
or
rpc.portmap
and it should live in the /usr/sbin
directory (on some machines it's called rpcbind). You can start it by
hand now, but it will need to be started every time you boot your
machine so you need to make/edit the rc scripts. Your rc scripts are
explained more closely in the init man page, they usually reside in
/etc/rc.d
, /etc/init.d
or /etc/rc.d/init.d
.
If there is a script called something like inet
it's probably the
right script to edit. But, what to write or do is outside the scope
of this HOWTO. Start portmap, and check that it lives by running
ps aux
. It does? Good.