From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Dec 19 11:32:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (castles510.castles.com [208.214.165.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3B01151D7 for ; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 11:32:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA03084; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 11:36:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199912191936.LAA03084@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Bill Fumerola Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mountd and rpc.statd won't run In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 19 Dec 1999 14:19:30 EST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 11:36:11 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Sun, 19 Dec 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > Indeed I ran into this problem just yesterday. I have found that all my > > > 3.3-RELEASE boxes didn't configure a lo0 by default! I'd consider that a > > > bug :-) > > > > You'd be wrong. There's an ifconfig_lo0 entry in the defaults file. > > Don't be so sure that he's wrong. We installed a lot of 3.3 machines here > when it first came out and some of them had NIS issues which actually > were the result of lo0 not being configured by default. > > It didn't happen on every machine which led me to believe it was probably > different sysinstall incantations that did it, unfortunatly I didn't have > time to track down exactly what those incantations were. That's called "inadmissible evidence". Unless you can come up with something that categorically suggests that your testing is more valid than ours, I don't think you're helping. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message