Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 12:01:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris BeHanna <behanna@zbzoom.net> To: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> Cc: Francisco Reyes <fran@reyes.somos.net>, FreeBSD Stable List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Upcoming rc.conf changes not loading certain currently loaded daemons Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008241200200.9227-100000@topperwein.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20000824150715.A24874@mithrandr.moria.org>
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On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote:
> On Thu 2000-08-24 (01:03), Francisco Reyes wrote:
> > What was the reason for these daemons been set to not start?
> > Wouldn't this "break" working machines?
>
> Only if you upgrade without reading the heads-up and warnings in
> UPDATING.
>
> The reason was to make things more obvious. If you have an empty
> /etc/rc.conf, you don't expect portmap and inetd to be running.
>
> (and when I'm through with it, sendmail won't be listening on port 25 by
> default either *evil.grin*)
Won't that break things, though? Doesn't every other MTA in the
world expect to send its SMTP traffic over port 25? If the answer is
"no," then I'm very excited, because my ISP blocks ports 1-1024.
--
Chris BeHanna
Software Engineer (at yourfit.com)
behanna@zbzoom.net
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