Sorry for the noise, as long as portmap_flags is defined, portmap
should be started by /etc/rc, I get confused sometimes...

On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Barry Grumbine
<barry.grumb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Mike Korbakov <mike-...@yandex.ru> wrote:
>> I see, compatibility section overwrites what was entered before.
>> Two blocking light switches are very comfortable in a long corridor,
>> but i can't understand why 2 switches are where it affects on security.
>>
>> 27.10.2012, 22:24, "Remco" <re...@d-compu.dyndns.org>:
>>> Mike Korbakov wrote:
>>>
>>>>  Hi, misc !
>>>>
>>>>  I've changed /etc/rc.conf to run portmap at startup:
>>>>  portmap_flags=""        # for normal use: ""
>>>>
>>>>  But it not running after boot, see below:
>>>
>>> You're not supposed to edit rc.conf, but put your config in rc.conf.local.
>>
>
> Hi Mike,
>
> I'm not quite sure what you're saying here... if by "2 switches" you
> mean rc.conf and rc.conf.local, the reason you don't touch rc.conf is
> so upgrades go smoothly.  If you have not changed the rc.conf, the
> upgrade script can just replace it with a newer version rather than
> mucking about trying to merge your changes.  Also, if you put all
> local changes in rc.conf.local, you can see at a a glance what changes
> have been made.
>
> I don't see reference to pkg_scripts in this thread so far.  To start
> portmap on boot, you should have (at minimum) these in rc.conf.local:
> portmap_flags=""
> pkg_scripts="portmap"
>
> pkg_scripts is a space delimited list. For example, you might have
> something like this if you also run other services on boot:
> pkg_scripts="portmap httpd nfsen samba"
>
>
> If by "2 switches" you mean portmap_flags and pkg_scripts, I don't
> know, you would think that if I went to the trouble of adding
> 'pkg_scripts="portmap"' to rc.conf.local, that it would be obvious
> that I want to run portmap...
>
> My only thought is that some daemons need flags to be defined in order
> to run properly, such as:
> $ grep normal /etc/rc.conf |grep -v -e^# -e\"\"
> rarpd_flags=NO          # for normal use: "-a"
> ldattach_flags=NO       # for normal use: "[options] linedisc cua-device"
> mopd_flags=NO           # for normal use: "-a"
> dhcrelay_flags=NO       # for normal use: "-i interface [server]"
> rtadvd_flags=NO         # for normal use: list of interfaces
> rtsold_flags=NO         # for normal use: interface
> tftpd_flags=NO          # for normal use: "[chroot dir]"
> nfsd_flags=NO                   # for normal use: "-tun 4" and see nfsd(8)
>
>
> -Barry

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