> On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 06:18:30PM -0800, Vagrant Cascadian (bugs) > wrote: >> /etc/exports is marked as a conffile, but there is no sane default >> values to make it useful, so admins must modify /etc/exports >> appropriate to their network. > > Well, it is actually useful in an empty state; it makes the NFS server > start up, which means that the user can run exportfs manually to export > directories at will, and this is, AFAICS, a completely reasonble setup. > Is /etc/exports being a conffile a real-world problem?
in my experience, nfs server does not start if there are no exports. also, it makes it difficult for packages (such as ltsp-server) to configure NFS while remaining compliant with debian policy 10.7.3: "This implies that the default version will be part of the package distribution, and must not be modified by the maintainer scripts during installation (or at any other time)." a move towards something described in policy 10.7.4 might be nice. live well, vagrant
