On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 02:20:57PM +1000, John Wiltshire wrote:
> From: Angus Lees [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
> >i can't see people wanting to ever switch between "with NFS" /
> >"without NFS" (except maybe on a laptop, but i can think of better
> >ways of handling that).
>
> Not at all. If you don't want clients connecting to your file server during
> maintenance, backup windows or other things then you can just set the
> runlevel to 2 before doing the operation and back to 3 afterwards. Being
> able to turn off the NFS easily is a very useful feature in these
> situations.
so what's wrong/hard about:
/etc/init.d/nfs-server stop
of course thats exactly the same thing as changing to a suitably
configured runlevel.. are you ever likely to change enough services
to warrant a whole runlevel tho?
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