Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 17:14:37 +0200 From: Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> To: Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: rc.d/mountd: confusing message (and behavior?) Message-ID: <4968BB5D.8070909@icyb.net.ua> In-Reply-To: <7d6fde3d0901100711p70e9a66ahadc3c2570fc6f94b@mail.gmail.com> References: <4968AE90.5010004@icyb.net.ua> <7d6fde3d0901100711p70e9a66ahadc3c2570fc6f94b@mail.gmail.com>
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on 10/01/2009 17:11 Garrett Cooper said the following:
> On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 6:20 AM, Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> wrote:
>> $ /etc/rc.d/mountd onestart
>> /etc/rc.d/mountd: WARNING: /etc/exports is not readable.
>> Exit 1
>>
>> Actually /etc/exports did not exist at all.
>> And this was not a "WARNING", this was a fatal error, mountd did not start.
>>
>> Alsp, should it actually fail like this? I have ZFS and I plan to do
>> all NFS exports from ZFS, so /etc/exports would never be used.
>
> Uh, mountd is used for nfsd, so I'm not sure why you're trying to do
> this...
I thought that mountd and nfsd (and rpcbind) are still required even if
exported filesystems are ZFS. Am I wrong on this?
> The reference to /etc/exports is being picked up from
> /etc/rc.d/mountd on this line:
>
> required_files="/etc/exports"
>
> and it's picking up the actual `does it exist?' test from:
>
> [gcooper@orangebox /usr/home/gcooper]$ grep -A 3 required_files /etc/rc.subr
> # required_files n If set, check for the readability of the given
> # files before running a (re)start command.
> #
> # required_modules n If set, ensure the given kernel modules are
> --
> rcvar required_dirs required_files required_vars
> eval unset ${_arg}_cmd ${_arg}_precmd ${_arg}_postcmd
>
> case "$_file" in
> --
> for _f in $required_files; do
> if [ ! -r "${_f}" ]; then
> warn "${_f} is not readable."
> if [ -z "$rc_force" ]; then
>
> Cheers,
> -Garrett
--
Andriy Gapon
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