RH Taroon Beta Open Ports
Steve Dickson
SteveD at redhat.com
Mon Aug 25 19:11:37 UTC 2003
David T Hollis wrote:
>> third party applications of our beloved customers... There are
>> *probably* a few more
>> applications other than NFS and NIS that need to advertise ports....
>> Remember the
>> RPC subsystem has been around for a very long time which means we
>> really don't
>> what we would be breaking by turning it off... Just because you don't
>> know about
>> something..... does not mean they don't exist....
>
>
> Your missing the point here. No one is saying don't ship portmap or
> nfs utilities. Just raising the question as to whether they should be
> enabled by default.
I'm not sure how you interpreted that I want to stop ship nfs or
portmapper..... but let me
assure that is *NOT* the case... I just don't want to turn of a long
standing subsystem
that third parties my or may not depend for simply no good reason....
Steved
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