Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 13:50:06 GMT From: Adam David <adam@veda.is> To: wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.EDU (Bill Paul) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /etc/rc* stuff Message-ID: <199610261350.NAA04998@veda.is> References: <199610242315.BAA04473@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199610250014.UAA23879@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu>
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>> > - Even though we have rpc.lockd and rpc.statd in the tree now, there
>> > are no knobs for it in /etc/sysconfig or /etc/rc. Shouldn't we be
>> > be starting them if NFS is turned on?
>>
>> You mean, ``just to confuse the people''? :)
>>
>> Remember, they are no-ops still.
>No, they aren't. rpc.statd is fully functional. rpc.lockd is halfway
>functional. In either case, it doesn't hurt to have them on.
$ man rpc.lockd | vgrep
BUGS
The current implementation provides only the server side of the protocol
(ie. clients running other OS types can establish locks on a FreeBSD
fileserver, but there is currently no means for a FreeBSD client to es-
tablish locks).
$ ^D
I'd like to see them in the default /etc/rc too.
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Adam David <adam@veda.is>
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