Un, very good point :)


		David/absolute

On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Jim Bernard wrote:

>   But wait:  Portmap runs on a server to supply port numbers to clients.
> So why should portmap be required on an nfs client machine?  I've been running
> an nfs client machine without portmap for several days, and I haven't noticed
> any problems.
> 
> On Fri, Nov 19, 1999 at 02:35:05PM +0100, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> > On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, David Brownlee wrote:
> > > > I'd like to set portmap=yes in the start-nfs block, but the problem is
> > > > that portmap is started before that. Should we bother checking if either
> > > > of portmap, nfs_client or nfs_server is set, to turn portmap on?
> > > > 
> > > 	That sounds reasonable to me.
> > 
> > So:
> > 
> > diff -u -r1.136 rc
> > --- rc  1999/11/15 20:04:50     1.136
> > +++ rc  1999/11/19 13:33:21
> > @@ -262,7 +262,7 @@
> >  echo -n 'starting rpc daemons:'
> >  
> >  # note that portmap is generally required for all other rpc services.
> > -if checkyesno portmap; then
> > +if checkyesno portmap || checkyesno nfs_client || checkyesno nfs_server;
> > then
> >         echo -n ' portmap';             portmap $portmap_flags
> >  fi
> > 
> > Are there other services that would need to be added here?
> > ypbind, ypserv, yppasswdd?
> > 
> > 
> >  - Hubert
> > 
> > -- 
> > NetBSD - Better for your uptime than Viagra
>