On 31-Jul-01 David Malone wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 08:33:59AM -0700, Dima Dorfman wrote:
>> Dan Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> > In the last episode (Jul 31), Dima Dorfman said:
>> > > 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).
>> >
>> > Probably to keep existing rc.conf's from breaking. Same reason we've
>> > still got xntpd_enable.
>>
>> Why not change the names now, but keep the old ones working until,
>> say, 5.0 is branched? People moving from 4.x will have enough hurdles
>> to jump through as it is, and those using -current will have half a
>> year to change it.
>
> It still is an extra change for people updating from 4.X to 5.0.
> Maybe we should just make a portmap_program variable which is set
> to portmap in -stable and rpcbind in -current. At least things
> would be orthogonal then.
> grep portmap_program /etc/defaults/rc.conf
portmap_program="/usr/sbin/rpcbind" # path to portmap, if you want a
different one.
> uname -r
5.0-CURRENT
>From cvs annotate:
1.71 (eivind 28-Jul-00): portmap_enable="NO" # Run the
portmapper service (YES/NO).
1.96 (alfred 19-Mar-01): portmap_program="/usr/sbin/rpcbind" # path
to portmap, if you want a different one.
1.1 (jkh 09-Feb-99): portmap_flags="" # Flags to
portmap (if enabled).
>From cvs annotate of rev 1.95:
1.71 (eivind 28-Jul-00): portmap_enable="NO" # Run the
portmapper service (YES/NO).
1.3 (jfitz 11-Mar-99): portmap_program="/usr/sbin/portmap" # path
to portmap, if you want a different one.
1.1 (jkh 09-Feb-99): portmap_flags="" # Flags to
portmap (if enabled).
As you can see, we've had the portmap_program knob for 2.5 years now. :)
Right now there is no change related to portmap for a 4.x -> 5.0 upgrade.
(None that is visible to the user at least.)
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