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Date:      Fri, 12 Oct 2001 10:52:56 +0200
From:      Anders Nordby <anders@fix.no>
To:        Harold Paulson <haroldp@sierraweb.com>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Port: drac-1.11 needs portmapper running
Message-ID:  <20011012105256.A22123@totem.fix.no>
In-Reply-To: <p05100300b7ebf39d4d1f@[216.162.173.6]>
References:  <p05100300b7ebf39d4d1f@[216.162.173.6]>

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Hello,

On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 06:18:43PM -0700, Harold Paulson wrote:
> I finally figured out why I couldn't get Drac running on my new box 
> when it works great on two other machines:
> 
> 	portmap is disabled by default in -STABLE now
> 
> Not sure when that changed but it used to be enabled by default.  You 
> might want to include a mention of that in the notices the Makefile 
> spits out.  Obviously rpc.dracd doesn't work without it.

Yes. It is true that all RPC based services requires a portmapper. This
is not special for dracd. If you ever read inetd.conf, a very common
configuration file for configuring Internet services, you would probably
have noticed. And if you ever used NFS or NIS, you would probably also
have noticed. :-) Try "apropos rpc" one day.

In FreeBSD -current, portmap doesn't exist either. It has been replaced
by rpcbind.

> I started portmap and it works great now.  I also added:
> 
> 	portmap_enable="YES"
> 
> to my /etc/rc.conf.  You might also mention that trick.

As this is a general issue with RPC, I don't see the need for the drac
port to document it. dracd is after all named "rpc.dracd" for a reason.
Then again, do other people have an opinion here?

Cheers,

-- 
Anders.

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