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From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>
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Subject: Re: pcnfsd..
To: paul@netcraft.co.uk
Date: Mon, 1 Jan 1996 13:30:05 -0800 (PST)
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In-Reply-To: <199601011627.QAA28104@server.netcraft.co.uk> from "Paul Richards" at Jan 1, 96 04:27:41 pm
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> 
> In reply to Jordan K. Hubbard who said
> > 
> > As noted in my commit message, one unfortunate thing is that the pcnfsd
> > package will still need to modify /etc/sysconfig.  Back when we had pcnfsd
> > in /etc/sysconfig, it was conditionalized off of in netstart so that we'd
> > know when to start mountd with the `-n' flag (see man page).  Now that
> > the pcnfsd variable is gone, I've had to create another variable in
> > its place:  ``weak_mountd_authentication''
> 
> Can't see the changes yet, not got good connectivity but wouldn't this
> have been better implemented by passing mount flags to mountd just like
> we do for sendmail and various other stuff.
> 
> The solution for gated (from Rod's mail) would be to make the binary
> itself a config option and change /etc/rc and /etc/netstart to
> scripts that start "facilities" at specific points in the bootup
> process rather than specific binaries. These facilities would then
> be variables pulled in from sysconfig too so that if you want to
> run gated instead of routed you don't have to change gated=yes you
> change router=gated.
> 
> i.e.
> 
> if [ "x$router" != "xNO" ] ; then
>     echo -n starting routing daemons:
> 
>         echo -n $router;  $router $routerflags
> 
>     echo '.'
> fi  

Can I politly go stuff my head in the sand for not thinking of
this one myself :-).  I note only like it, I LOVE IT!!!!

[It also fixes the fact that gatedflags was never given a sample
templage in /etc/sysconfig but was being used in /etc/netstart if
you set gated=YES] :-)

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