Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 10:47:51 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> To: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> Cc: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, alfred@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: portmap_enable vs. rpcbind_enable Message-ID: <200107311647.f6VGlpw50279@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 31 Jul 2001 17:38:15 BST." <200107311638.f6VGcFc56314@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> References: <200107311638.f6VGcFc56314@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>
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In message <200107311638.f6VGcFc56314@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> Brian Somers writes: : > 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 ? There were a fair number of people that wanted the name to remain the same... I want it to remaint he same, but I don't care enough to fight. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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