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Date:      Mon, 1 Oct 2001 14:32:18 -0500
From:      Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>
To:        arch@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: nfsd and mountd in the wrong place
Message-ID:  <20011001143218.W40556@curie.physics.purdue.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0109291245070.26845-100000@smtp.gnf.org>; from gordont@gnf.org on Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 01:03:35PM -0700
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.33.0109291245070.26845-100000@smtp.gnf.org>

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On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 01:03:35PM -0700, Gordon Tetlow (gordont@gnf.org) wrote:
> nfsd and mountd are in /sbin
> rpcbind/portmap is in /usr/sbin
> 
> nfsd and mountd aren't useful without rpcbind/portmap. And when was the
> last time you needed nfsd and mountd to boot your system? I just checked,
> NetBSD has already moved nfsd and mountd to /usr/sbin.
> 
> Is there any reason why nfsd or mountd shouldn't be moved to /usr/sbin?

Well, no.  But rpcbind and portmap definitely need to be moved to
/sbin if FreeBSD wants to be used as a NFS diskless client, since
unless I'm mistaken these are required to do NFS mounts.
However, neither nfsd nor mountd are required for that activity.

-- 
wca

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