Reasons to preseve X on tty7

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Wed Oct 29 21:29:45 UTC 2008


Hans de Goede (j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl) said: 
> So the idea is to patch all the initscripts which currently only get 
> started by default for NFS, to as the first thing in their start method 
> grep for nfs in /etc/fstab and if that is not found exit quietly without 
> doing anything further.

Ow. But... maybe.

> Then to make manual mounting of nfs exports not in fstab work properly, 
> the suggested fix is to patch mount to check if the necessary daemons are 
> running and if not start them. Since this will probably turn out to be 
> distro specific I think it would be best to have a checknfsdaemons shell 
> script in some standard location provided by the distro and let mount 
> call that before each nfs mount. (Oh the horror an additional entire fork 
> and exec on each nfs mount, hello people this is going over the network, 
> forget about the fork and exec cost, thank you).

install nfs <do horrible, nasty dirty stuff here> in a modprobe.d file
might do the trick.

Bill




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