From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Oct 1 12:32:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from franklin.physics.purdue.edu (franklin.physics.purdue.edu [128.210.146.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CAF037B40A for ; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 12:32:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from physics.purdue.edu (curie.physics.purdue.edu [128.210.68.223]) by franklin.physics.purdue.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id B708C20F0F for ; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 14:32:32 -0500 (EST) Received: by physics.purdue.edu (Postfix, from userid 12409) id 4C3EE85; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 14:32:18 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 14:32:18 -0500 From: Will Andrews To: arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: nfsd and mountd in the wrong place Message-ID: <20011001143218.W40556@curie.physics.purdue.edu> Reply-To: Will Andrews Mail-Followup-To: arch@FreeBSD.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.17i In-Reply-To: ; from gordont@gnf.org on Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 01:03:35PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 01:03:35PM -0700, Gordon Tetlow (gordont@gnf.org) wrote: > nfsd and mountd are in /sbin > rpcbind/portmap is in /usr/sbin > > nfsd and mountd aren't useful without rpcbind/portmap. And when was the > last time you needed nfsd and mountd to boot your system? I just checked, > NetBSD has already moved nfsd and mountd to /usr/sbin. > > Is there any reason why nfsd or mountd shouldn't be moved to /usr/sbin? Well, no. But rpcbind and portmap definitely need to be moved to /sbin if FreeBSD wants to be used as a NFS diskless client, since unless I'm mistaken these are required to do NFS mounts. However, neither nfsd nor mountd are required for that activity. -- wca To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message