From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 6 12:52:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id MAA27177 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 6 Jan 1997 12:52:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id MAA27169 for ; Mon, 6 Jan 1997 12:52:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id VAA16011 for ; Mon, 6 Jan 1997 21:52:32 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id VAA03972 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 6 Jan 1997 21:52:32 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id VAA04987; Mon, 6 Jan 1997 21:35:40 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 21:35:40 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Any good reason to run portmap on a non NFS'd/RPC'd References: <199701060938.JAA24767@deputy.pavilion.co.uk> <199701061606.KAA26670@solaria.sol.net> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199701061606.KAA26670@solaria.sol.net>; from Joe Greco on Jan 6, 1997 10:06:38 -0500 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Joe Greco wrote: > How about a "portmap=AUTO"? > > If set, it enables portmap is YP/NFS/etc are enabled. > > If "NO", it yells during startup that you are broken, if YP/NFS/etc are > enabled. > > If "YES", well, obvious :-) Your message must have been corrupted, can you resend it? (The appended diff for your proposal must have gone lost. :) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)