Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 12:40:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> To: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: nfsd and mountd in the wrong place Message-ID: <200110011940.f91Je9p52325@earth.backplane.com> References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0109291245070.26845-100000@smtp.gnf.org> <20011001143218.W40556@curie.physics.purdue.edu>
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: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.
:
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:wca
You do not need to run portmap/rpcbind as an NFS client. You do
not need to run anything, you just need a live network.
-Matt
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