> 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 ?
> Warner
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