From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 6 08:06:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id IAA13437 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 6 Jan 1997 08:06:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from anacreon.sol.net (anacreon.sol.net [206.55.64.116]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id IAA13431 for ; Mon, 6 Jan 1997 08:06:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from solaria.sol.net (solaria.sol.net [206.55.65.75]) by anacreon.sol.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id KAA05456; Mon, 6 Jan 1997 10:06:41 -0600 Received: from localhost by solaria.sol.net (8.5/8.5) id KAA26670; Mon, 6 Jan 1997 10:06:40 -0600 From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <199701061606.KAA26670@solaria.sol.net> Subject: Re: Any good reason to run portmap on a non NFS'd/RPC'd To: aledm@routers.co.uk (Aled Morris) Date: Mon, 6 Jan 97 10:06:38 CST Cc: mrcpu@cdsnet.net, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199701060938.JAA24767@deputy.pavilion.co.uk> from "Aled Morris" at Jan 6, 97 09:38:30 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL65] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > At 14:55 02/01/97 -0800, Jaye Mathisen wrote: > >I'm not using YP or any of that stuff. If not, then it seems like > >something that would be good to turn into a sysconfig variable. > > Nor do I - I usually rename "portmap" so it doesn't get found by RC. > > I would support the proposal for a sysconfig variable (although to avoid > beginner's problems, there should probably be some logic in RC to > override "portmap=NO" if YP, NFS or any other good stuff is enabled.) How about a "portmap=AUTO"? If set, it enables portmap is YP/NFS/etc are enabled. If "NO", it yells during startup that you are broken, if YP/NFS/etc are enabled. If "YES", well, obvious :-) Just a thought. ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847