[arch-projects] [RFC] [PATCH] [initscripts] rc.conf: Disable network and netfs by default.

[Dave Reisner]

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 01:27:54AM -0300, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote:
> By default, there is no network is configured in rc.conf. So if you boot
> the machine with an unmodified rc.conf you will see a warning
> about network deprecation settings.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi <vmlinuz386 at yahoo.com.ar>
> ---
>  rc.conf |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/rc.conf b/rc.conf
> index 5984171..bd13fce 100644
> --- a/rc.conf
> +++ b/rc.conf
> @@ -114,4 +114,4 @@ NETWORK_PERSIST="no"
>  # If something other takes care of your hardware clock (ntpd, dual-boot...)
>  # you should disable 'hwclock' here.
>  #
> -DAEMONS=(hwclock syslog-ng network netfs crond)
> +DAEMONS=(hwclock syslog-ng !network !netfs crond)
> -- 
> 1.7.5.2
> 

I noticed this the other day on one of my VMs. I'm not sure what the
best course of action is. There's a few choices...

1) This.
2) Refactor the need_legacy check. It's fairly naive at the moment. We
could easily cover the 'null' edge case by checking:

  [[ -z $INTERFACES && -z $interface ]]

3) Change where deprecation messages are printed -- i.e., only once
we're about to execute some net-tools based logic do we print a message.
This is perhaps the least desireable, imo, because it's also prone to
creating the most amount of spammage. I wouldn't want to see the warning
printed more than once per invocation.

d