From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Aug 18 13:34:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0973A37B40C for ; Sat, 18 Aug 2001 13:34:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f7IKYI497332 for ; Sat, 18 Aug 2001 16:34:18 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 16:34:16 -0400 To: stable@freebsd.org From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Minor issue with portmap=NO vs 'ypwhich' Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This will probably seem like a dumb thing to report, but I'll mention it in case someone who knows about yp/NIS would want to comment on it. My .bashrc file is (pretty much) the same on the many different platforms that I work on, and as a matter of trouble-shooting on SOME of those platforms I do a 'ypwhich' in it. Most of those platforms do NOT run yp, but I still run it on all platforms and just catch the error for those hosts which are not running yp. I am NOT running yp on freebsd. With this week's -stable, /etc/defaults/rc.conf changes portmap_enable to be "NO". With portmap_enable off, ypwhich still errors out as it does with portmap_enable on, but it takes it much longer to figure out that yp is not running (30 seconds? 60 seconds?). So, I realize it's probably dumb to care about how quickly ypwhich completes on a machine which is NOT running yp, but it is a noticeable change, so I thought I'd mention it. It is easy for me to just fix my .bashrc so I wouldn't hit that long delay, or to just turn on portmap, for that matter (which is what I've done for the moment). So, this isn't a big issue for me. I'm just wondering if there are any other effects which might be more significant for other users. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message