Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 17:38:15 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> Cc: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, alfred@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: portmap_enable vs. rpcbind_enable Message-ID: <200107311638.f6VGcFc56314@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> of "Tue, 31 Jul 2001 10:01:44 MDT." <200107311601.f6VG1iw49778@harmony.village.org>
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> In message <20010731114846.42FA73E2F@bazooka.unixfreak.org> Dima Dorfman writes:
> : 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).
>
> Because we didn't want to break old people's config files. Also, the
> rpcbind rename was stupid and there were people at the time that had
> hoped it be renamed portmap since that was a bigger pola :-)
Are you referring to grog & bde only ?
> Warner
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