Subject: Re: portmap=no, nfs_{client,server}=yes
To: None <tech-userlevel@netbsd.org>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 11/19/1999 10:53:46
>>> [...portmap...nfs...]

> 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?

I'd like to see some kind of notification when portmap is started
despite portmap=NO; indeed, I'd much rather see a warning but see
portmap *not* started.  (If I tell it portmap=NO I damn well expect
that portmap will not be started!  It's offensive (and usually wrong)
for software to think it knows better than I do what I want running on
my machines.)

					der Mouse

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