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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: More Questions Re: NFS install problem (2.0.5R)
Date: 23 Aug 1995 14:56:29 +0200
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John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> wrote:
(Use reserved port for NFS.)
>I'm curious ... why is this even an option? Why not simply *always* use a
>privileged port for NFS during the install? That should work with any
>NFS server.
Since the idea behind it is, ähem, braindead (and only used by Sun).
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)