[arch-dev-public] nfs-utils excessive install messages

Dan McGee dpmcgee at gmail.com
Tue Jun 16 23:27:05 EDT 2009


Whoops, wrong signoff thread! Sorry.

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Dan McGee<dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Why did my console become a how-to guide? This is pretty excessive in
> my opinion, especially since it still says in the message to refer to
> the wiki...
>
> These are the kind of messages that make me never want to read these,
> and we wonder why users ignore them.
>
> (26/36) upgrading nfs-utils                         [#####################] 100%
>
>  ==>
>  ==> PLEASE NOTE:
>  ==> Extended configuration options for NFS (clients & server) are available in
>  ==> /etc/conf.d/nfs-common.conf and in /etc/conf.d/nfs-server.conf
>  ==>
>  ==> Please refer to http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Nfs
>  ==> for further information on NFS; for NFSv4, refer to
>  ==> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NFSv4
>
>  ==>  If you plan on using NFSv4, in /etc/conf.d/nfs-common.conf set:
>  ==>  1) NEED_IDMAPD="yes" to start rpc.idmapd - on clients & server.
>  ==>     rpc.idmapd needs to be properly configured; edit at least the
>  ==>     Domain line in /etc/idmapd.conf.
>  ==>  2) NEED_GSSD="yes" to start rpc.gssd (GSS authentication) -
> only on clients.
>  ==>  3) Add "rpc_pipefs /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs rpc_pipefs 0 0" to /etc/fstab.
>  ==>     If not mounted when the init script nfs-common starts it
> tries to mount the
>  ==>     filesystem automatically (if rpc.idmapd or rpc.gssd is needed);
>  ==>     see /etc/conf.d/nfs-common.conf for extended configuration options.
>
>  ==> Only on server /etc/conf.d/nfs-server.conf set:
>  ==>  1) add "nfsd /proc/fs/nfsd nfsd -o rw,nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0"
> to /etc/fstab.
>  ==>     If not mounted when the init script nfs-server starts it
> tries to mount the
>  ==>     filesystem automatically; see /etc/conf.d/nfs-server.conf for extended
>  ==>     configuration options.
>  ==>  2) NEED_SVCGSSD="yes" to start rpc.svcgssd (GSS authentication)
> - on server
>


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