Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7, NSF, "feature" [SOLVED]

2016-02-04 Thread James Hogarth
On 4 Feb 2016 03:10, "Always Learning" wrote: > > > On Wed, 2016-02-03 at 13:57 -0700, Warren Young wrote: > > > On Feb 3, 2016, at 10:30 AM, Ricardo J. Barberis wrote: > > > > > > El Miércoles 03/02/2016, Warren Young escribió: > > >> > > >> Again, I

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7, NSF, "feature" [SOLVED]

2016-02-03 Thread Warren Young
On Feb 3, 2016, at 10:18 AM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > > On 02/03/2016 08:59 AM, Warren Young wrote: >> Again, I don’t know why they couldn’t just do it with links. > > Probably because they want to support a read-only root filesystem, working > toward "stateless"

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7, NSF, "feature" [SOLVED]

2016-02-03 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 02/03/2016 12:52 PM, Warren Young wrote: Probably because they want to support a read-only root filesystem, working toward "stateless" systems. How does that explain anything? The same RPM that installed the service file can create a hard link or symlink giving the command an alternate

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7, NSF, "feature" [SOLVED]

2016-02-03 Thread Warren Young
On Feb 3, 2016, at 10:30 AM, Ricardo J. Barberis wrote: > > El Miércoles 03/02/2016, Warren Young escribió: >> >> Again, I don’t know why they couldn’t just do it with links. > > I guess that's probably to execute scripts and "hide" the name of the > interpreter, e.g.:

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7, NSF, "feature" [SOLVED]

2016-02-03 Thread Always Learning
On Wed, 2016-02-03 at 13:57 -0700, Warren Young wrote: > On Feb 3, 2016, at 10:30 AM, Ricardo J. Barberis > wrote: > > > > El Miércoles 03/02/2016, Warren Young escribió: > >> > >> Again, I don’t know why they couldn’t just do it with links. > > > > I guess that's

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7, NSF, "feature" [SOLVED]

2016-02-03 Thread Noam Bernstein
> On Feb 3, 2016, at 10:57 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > > The issue: NFS fails to start in CentOS 7 if it cannot resolve any of a > list of hosts. > > Well, my manager had to google to find the *truly* obscure solution that > uses a deeply oddball syntax. > > In

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7, NSF, "feature" [SOLVED]

2016-02-03 Thread Warren Young
On Feb 3, 2016, at 8:57 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > > Notice the *deeply* weird syntax of "=-”. That syntax comes from make(1), where it means the same thing. make(1) has been with us since 1977, so I’d think “old and familiar” is a better description than “deeply weird.” > And, I read in

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7, NSF, "feature" [SOLVED]

2016-02-03 Thread m . roth
Warren Young wrote: > On Feb 3, 2016, at 8:57 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> >> I also don't understand why you'd set as an out-of-the-box default >> that it should fail to come up if it can't resolve any export host, >> rather than default to coming up. > > You do it for the same reason you’d

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7, NSF, "feature" [SOLVED]

2016-02-03 Thread m . roth
The issue: NFS fails to start in CentOS 7 if it cannot resolve any of a list of hosts. Well, my manager had to google to find the *truly* obscure solution that uses a deeply oddball syntax. In /usr/lib/systemd/system/nfs-server.service, you edit the following line so that it looks like this:

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7, NSF, "feature" [SOLVED]

2016-02-03 Thread Ricardo J. Barberis
El Miércoles 03/02/2016, Warren Young escribió: > On Feb 3, 2016, at 8:57 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > > Notice the *deeply* weird syntax of "=-”. > > That syntax comes from make(1), where it means the same thing. make(1) has > been with us since 1977, so I’d think “old and familiar” is a better

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7, NSF, "feature" [SOLVED]

2016-02-03 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 02/03/2016 08:59 AM, Warren Young wrote: Again, I don’t know why they couldn’t just do it with links. Probably because they want to support a read-only root filesystem, working toward "stateless" systems. ___ CentOS mailing list