This one time, at band camp, Mark Brown said: > On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 01:35:20AM +0000, Stephen Gran wrote: > > > I may be missing something, but why does it need to be moved? It starts > > in rcS as well as rc2, so this should only ever be an issue in the rare > > The more noticable issue is the collision between nis and autofs. Both > run at level 19, neither runs in rcS.d and autofs is frequently used > with NIS maps so wants NIS to be started before it. It's this that > drives moving portmap. OK, I understood this as solely a portmap issue, so that clarifies for me. > > cases when you have to switch to runlevel 1 and back, right? This seems > > like a rare enough occurence I'm not sure it's worth worrying about too > > much, but I may be missing something here. > > I worry that while this is a rarely used feature the people who use NIS > are more likely than most to be among those who do so. Yes, I suppose this is probably true. My memories of NIS do involve some single user mode work :) -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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