dfeustel@mindspring.com wrote:
> jKILLSPAM.schipper@math.uu.nl wrote:
>> dfeustel@mindspring.com wrote:
>>> I am running two OpenBSD 3.9 release (CD) systems.
>>> One with and one without X-windows. I just noticed
>>> that the system running X-windows shows a line in
>>> the bootup dmesg that the rpc daemons are being started.
>>> This message does not show up on the system not running
>>> X-windows. Are rpc daemons used by X-windows?
>>
>> No, run a diff between the rc.{local.,}conf files - most likely, you
>> enabled an NFS server or something.

> I compared the rc.conf files for the two systems and found
> that the watchdogd_flag=no and the ftp_proxy_flag=no lines
> are missing from the rc.conf file of the system which hasr
> X-windows installed.
> I'm positive that I did not delete those lines from rc.conf.
> Are they removed as a part of installing X-windows?

No, and neither are they related to rpc. Did you, perhaps, update one of
them or somesuch?

Joachim