From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Oct 1 12:40:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from earth.backplane.com (earth-nat-cw.backplane.com [208.161.114.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69DEC37B40B for ; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 12:40:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by earth.backplane.com (8.11.6/8.11.2) id f91Je9p52325; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 12:40:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 12:40:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Matt Dillon Message-Id: <200110011940.f91Je9p52325@earth.backplane.com> To: Will Andrews Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: nfsd and mountd in the wrong place References: <20011001143218.W40556@curie.physics.purdue.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :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 You do not need to run portmap/rpcbind as an NFS client. You do not need to run anything, you just need a live network. -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message