From owner-freebsd-current Sun Oct 6 23:42:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B2BA37B401; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 23:42:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACD0E43EA3; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 23:42:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.6/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g976gtFX061505; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 23:42:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.6/8.12.5/Submit) id g976gtJT061504; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 23:42:55 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 23:42:55 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" Cc: FreeBSD current users Subject: Re: Do we still need portmap(8)? Message-ID: <20021007064255.GA59998@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.org References: <20021007063250.GF14070@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021007063250.GF14070@wantadilla.lemis.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 04:02:51PM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > It's been a while since we've used portmap(8) on -CURRENT systems. Is > it still needed, or can it be removed completely? At the very least, > the man page should stop claiming that it's necessary to run NFS. Are you saying we've left behind an old manpage? One certainly still needs portmap(8), in its rpcbind(8) name, for NFS. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message