On Sep 02, Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Next, I realise that ntpdate and portmap do not really need to run in > >> rcS.d/. Moving them both to rc2.d and running insserv -v again, it is > > portmap does, if /usr or /var are NFS-mounted. > Why? NFS mounting should work without portmap enabled on the local > machine, right? nfs-common is started later with the stat and lock > daemons, so these do not need portmap. I believe they are all RPC daemons, so they need portmap.
> > Indeed, hotplug does. > Hotplug didn't load any of these modules on the machines in question, > even though it does have an IDE CD-ROM and a PS/2 mouse. Should it? Yes, but it only supports 2.6 kernels (and support for serio hotplug is not in sarge at all). > > Another possible optimization is to control the fixed network > > interfaces with hotplug too, but this may require some bits of > > infrastructure which are not yet in the package. > Do you have more info on this one? I do not understand your Configure the interfaces to not be started with ifup -a, but when an hotplug event is received. > Your initial comment almost made me disregard your entire message. > The stable release of Debian work this way, so I find the testing > results quite relevant and not really of limited use. Your comment > tells me that you consider Debian/sarge not to be a modern system, and > to put it simple, I do not agree. I'm not sure if this was the This will not be applied to sarge, but to sid. -- ciao, Marco
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