Reasons to preseve X on tty7

[Jeremy Katz]

On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 10:35 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
> So the idea is to patch all the initscripts which currently only get started by 
> default for NFS, to as the first thing in their start method grep for nfs in 
> /etc/fstab and if that is not found exit quietly without doing anything further.

To be clear -- this is the rpc* and portmap services, yes?  If so, it's
not entirely clear that it'll work... you need portmap also if you're
using NIS and so you can't just use nfs mounts in /etc/fstab.

Although to be fair, if you're setting up nfs in /etc/fstab, you've
already done manual editing.  I'm not sure that you're worse off if you
also have to set up services to start.  That's pretty much the norm for
if you edit config files...

> Then to make manual mounting of nfs exports not in fstab work properly, the 
> suggested fix is to patch mount to check if the necessary daemons are running 
> and if not start them. Since this will probably turn out to be distro specific 
> I think it would be best to have a checknfsdaemons shell script in some 
> standard location provided by the distro and let mount call that before each 
> nfs mount. (Oh the horror an additional entire fork and exec on each nfs mount, 
> hello people this is going over the network, forget about the fork and exec 
> cost, thank you).

Yeah, I've talked with steved about having portmap, etc auto-started as
someone running mount and just having it hang has always been my bigger
concern with turning these off by default.  But I think I actually saw a
useful error message from mount the other day (... as I've been
experimenting with some services turned off to see what impact they have
even for someone who uses old and crufty things like nfs :-)

Jeremy