Seems like a good idea to me not to have a message displayed if
explicitly configured not to do something!
If you have `nfs_enable_client="NO"' and if you have nfs mounts in your
fstab, then this could be a method of delaying those mounts until after
boot/init time?
On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, David Wolfskill wrote:
> I discovered this under 3.4-R, and checked that it's still the case
> for 4.0-RC.
>
> I'm putting together a box that has no reason whatsoever to use or
> provide any NFS services at all.
>
> It was thus with a sense of "POLA violation" that I happened across the
> message
>
> Mounting NFS file systems
>
> in the boot-up messages.
>
>
> Turns out that the stanza that generates that (in /etc/rc) looks like:
>
> echo -n "Mounting NFS file systems"
> mount -a -t nfs
> echo .
>
> ...as in, this isn't conditional on anything.
>
> OK; fine. Maybe I'm not a programmer (any more), but this seems to
> work OK:
>
> -----%<----------------
>
> --- rc Tue Feb 8 22:32:40 2000
> +++ /tmp/rc Mon Feb 14 14:11:01 2000
> @@ -191,9 +191,14 @@
> network_pass1
> fi
>
> -# Mount NFS filesystems.
> -echo -n "Mounting NFS file systems"
> -mount -a -t nfs
> +case ${nfs_client_enable} in
> +[Yy][Ee][Ss])
> + # Mount NFS filesystems.
> + echo -n "Mounting NFS file systems"
> + mount -a -t nfs
> + ;;
> +esac
> +
> echo .
>
> # Whack the pty perms back into shape.
>
> ----->%----------------
>
> Downside is that it's possible that there are machines that actually *do*
> act as NFS clients, even though nfs_client_enable is not set affirmatively.
> Then again, it could be argued that a new release would be one of the
> better times to make this kind of change, eh...? :-)
>
> (I'd do a send-pr, but I don't actually have a 4.0-RC system running at
> the moment, and I need to get this system running ASAP; the above was
> based on a 4.0-RC filesystem that is accessible from another machine, and
> I actually did the equivalent patch to the 3.4-R system, which survived the
> experiment... though, as noted, it doesn't use NFS.)
>
> Cheers,
> david
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