[Bug 1179980] Re: nfs-common: gssd upstart config does not permit usage of startup options

[Christopher Odenbach]

Hi,

> This is a deliberate design decision.  /etc/default files are
> discouraged whenever they aren't required to be supported for legacy
> reasons, because they slow down the boot with gratuitous spawning of
> shell processes.

OK, I understand. The point is only that /etc/default/nfs-common gets
already sourced in the init file once.

> If you need to override the 'exec' stanza of
> /etc/init/gssd.conf, the recommended/supported way to do that is with an
> upstart override:
> 
> # echo 'exec rpc.gssd -option1 -option2' > /etc/init/gssd.override

Excellent - did not now that.

Thanks,

Christopher


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    Dipl.-Ing. Christopher Odenbach
    Zentrum fuer Informations- und Medientechnologien
    Universitaet Paderborn
    Raum N5.311
    odenbach at uni-paderborn.de
    Tel.: +49 5251 60 5315
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Title:
  nfs-common: gssd upstart config does not permit usage of startup
  options

Status in “nfs-utils” package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  Ubuntu Version: Quantal
  Package: nfs-common
  Version: 1:1.2.6-3ubuntu2

  Problem:
  The upstart init config for gssd does not permit any command line options to gssd. There are however some very important options for gssd which should be configurable in /etc/default/nfs-common, using a variable RPCGSSDOPTS.

  The following trivial patch fixes the problem:

  --- /afs/uni-paderborn.de/user/o/odenbach/gssd.conf	2013-05-14 16:30:08.000000000 +0200
  +++ gssd.conf	2013-05-14 16:22:04.000000000 +0200
  @@ -74,7 +74,13 @@
   	fi
   end script
   
  -exec rpc.gssd
  +script
  +	if [ -f "$DEFAULTFILE" ]; then
  +		. "$DEFAULTFILE"
  +	fi
  +
  +	exec rpc.gssd $RPCGSSDOPTS
  +end script
   
   post-stop script
   	if mountpoint -q "$PIPEFS_MOUNTPOINT"

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