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Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 10:26:06 -0500
From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>
Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, alfred@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: portmap_enable vs. rpcbind_enable
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In the last episode (Jul 31), Dima Dorfman said:
> 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).

Probably to keep existing rc.conf's from breaking.  Same reason we've
still got xntpd_enable.

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	Dan Nelson
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