James Carlson wrote:
> Calum Mackay writes:
>> The NFS client and server currently store their properties in
>> /etc/default/nfs, which is deprecated in favor of SMF properties.
>> This will complicate any NFS project which needs to add an NFS
>> property. This is a proposal to solve this problem. We propose
>> to convert /etc/default/autofs to SMF properties at the same time.
> [...]
>> PSARC 1999/606 introduced this file, and noted that its contents were
>> Unstable (i.e. Uncommitted), so this change is permitted in a Minor
>> release, at least in theory.
>
> At least in theory. ;-}
>
> It looks like /usr/sfw/lib/webmin/zones/zones-lib.pl mucks about with
> this file. It's unclear to me whether this specific module or what it
> does is an important issue, but are there any administrative tools
> that know about either of these files? If so, they'll break when the
> file stops being authoritative for these parameters, and thus need to
> be updated.
>
For converting legacy /etc/default files and handling subsequent user
modification of those files, the treatment of /etc/default/syslogd in
PSARC 2004/368 may be a useful precedent.
Scott
