From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 31 9:38:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from Awfulhak.org (gw.Awfulhak.org [217.204.245.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4094637B401; Tue, 31 Jul 2001 09:38:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.12]) by Awfulhak.org (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f6VGcGr72889; Tue, 31 Jul 2001 17:38:16 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@lan.Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f6VGcFc56314; Tue, 31 Jul 2001 17:38:15 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <200107311638.f6VGcFc56314@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Warner Losh Cc: Dima Dorfman , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, alfred@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: portmap_enable vs. rpcbind_enable In-Reply-To: Message from Warner Losh of "Tue, 31 Jul 2001 10:01:44 MDT." <200107311601.f6VG1iw49778@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 17:38:15 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 -- Brian http://www.freebsd-services.com/ Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message