In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Brian Somers writes:
: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
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