Re: more pilot error

[Jan Danielsson <jan.m.danielsson%gmail.com@localhost>]

On 17/07/15 02:49, Brett Lymn wrote:
>> Hmmmmm .... OK, I manually started rpcbind & it started up fine, then 
>> nfsd & it started up fine. I am new to NetBSD, didn't know I had to 
>> separately, explicitly start rpcbind, I thought the nfsd start process 
>> would do that. Live & learn. Did I mention I am a *noob* to NetBSD :-) ? 
>> Thanks, I seem to be past this issue.
> 
> Everyone starts off somewhere.  Your assumption is not unreasonable, it
> doesn't make a whole lot of sense to have nfsd start without rpcbind
> running.  We probably should ensure rpcbind is running in the nfsd rc
> script.  I can see there is a dependency there but I don't think
> anything actually ensures it is running.  I guess because the assumption
> is that the dependencies on boot would have started it beforehand.

   Yes, that's it.  Those dependency rules are there to help rcorder(8)
get the order right during startup, but when you start an rc.d script
manually that interdependency metadata is no more than comments in a script.

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Kind Regards,
Jan