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Subject: Re: rc.d/mountd: confusing message (and behavior?)
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on 10/01/2009 17:11 Garrett Cooper said the following:
> On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 6:20 AM, Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> wrote:
>> $ /etc/rc.d/mountd onestart
>> /etc/rc.d/mountd: WARNING: /etc/exports is not readable.
>> Exit 1
>>
>> Actually /etc/exports did not exist at all.
>> And this was not a "WARNING", this was a fatal error, mountd did not start.
>>
>> Alsp, should it actually fail like this?  I have ZFS and I plan to do
>> all NFS exports from ZFS, so /etc/exports would never be used.
> 
> Uh, mountd is used for nfsd, so I'm not sure why you're trying to do
> this... 

I thought that mountd and nfsd (and rpcbind) are still required even if
exported filesystems are ZFS. Am I wrong on this?

> The reference to /etc/exports is being picked up from
> /etc/rc.d/mountd on this line:
> 
> required_files="/etc/exports"
> 
> and it's picking up the actual `does it exist?' test from:
> 
> [gcooper@orangebox /usr/home/gcooper]$ grep -A 3 required_files /etc/rc.subr
> #	required_files	n	If set, check for the readability of the given
> #				files before running a (re)start command.
> #
> #	required_modules n	If set, ensure the given kernel modules are
> --
> 		rcvar required_dirs required_files required_vars
> 	eval unset ${_arg}_cmd ${_arg}_precmd ${_arg}_postcmd
> 
> 	case "$_file" in
> --
> 		for _f in $required_files; do
> 			if [ ! -r "${_f}" ]; then
> 				warn "${_f} is not readable."
> 				if [ -z "$rc_force" ]; then
> 
> Cheers,
> -Garrett


-- 
Andriy Gapon