What Is gdomap?

gdomap is a daemon used by GNUstep programs. GNUstep is a framework for building applications that adheres to the OpenStep API specifications.

Is it safe to disable/remove gdomap?

Richard Frith-Macdonald stated the following in 2010:

The gdomap deamon is completely unused for most applications! I don't think
any GNUstep applications use it in normal operation (ie if you haven't given
them command-line options to tell them to communicate between different
hosts/users). The vast majority of DO connections are private to a single user
on a single machine and use message ports (implemented as unix domain sockets
or as message queues on mswindows) and they don't need/use a namesperver as
name information is written to the local filesystem (or windows registry).

I don't know if every application using the gdomap daemon has to register a name, but I listed the registered applications and found nothing:

$ gdomap -N

No names currently registered with gdomap

I also listed to see what other applications listed gnustep as a dependency and only found gnustep-games:

$ sudo apt-cache rdepends gnustep

gnustep

Reverse Depends:

  gnustep-games

How do I disable/remove gdomap?

So, you can temporarily turn gdomap off until the next restart:

$ sudo service gdomap stop

Or, you can stop the service and prevent it from starting on boot:

$ sudo service gdomap stop

$ sudo update-rc.d -f gdomap remove

# re-enable with: sudo update-rc.d gdomap defaults

Or, you can completely remove GNUStep:

$ sudo apt-get remove --purge gnustep

# NOTE: I had to run this too:

$ sudo apt-get autoremove

I removed GNUStep on my server; if I encounter any issues I'll be sure to post back.