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Subject: portmap_enable vs. rpcbind_enable
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 04:48:41 -0700
From: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>
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Does anybody know (remember?) why portmap_enable (the rc.conf knob)
wasn't renamed to rpcbind_enable when portmap became rpcbind?  It
seems odd to have a knob called portmap_enable that actually starts
something called rpcbind (not to mention violating POLA).

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