On 31-Jul-01 Dima Dorfman wrote:
> 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).
Actually, it was for POLA reasons. (I'm not arguing for or against said
reason, mind you.) It was thought that changing the name of the
portmap_enable knob might throw some people for a loop.
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