[arch-projects] [RFC] [PATCH] [initscripts] rc.conf: Disable network and netfs by default.

[Thomas Bächler]

Am 22.06.2011 18:17, schrieb Dan McGee:
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 11:45 PM, Dave Reisner <d at falconindy.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 01:27:54AM -0300, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote:
>>> By default, there is no network is configured in rc.conf. So if you boot
>>> the machine with an unmodified rc.conf you will see a warning
>>> about network deprecation settings.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi <vmlinuz386 at yahoo.com.ar>
>>> ---
>>>  rc.conf |    2 +-
>>>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/rc.conf b/rc.conf
>>> index 5984171..bd13fce 100644
>>> --- a/rc.conf
>>> +++ b/rc.conf
>>> @@ -114,4 +114,4 @@ NETWORK_PERSIST="no"
>>>  # If something other takes care of your hardware clock (ntpd, dual-boot...)
>>>  # you should disable 'hwclock' here.
>>>  #
>>> -DAEMONS=(hwclock syslog-ng network netfs crond)
>>> +DAEMONS=(hwclock syslog-ng !network !netfs crond)
>>> --
>>> 1.7.5.2
>>>
>>
>> I noticed this the other day on one of my VMs. I'm not sure what the
>> best course of action is. There's a few choices...
>>
>> 1) This.
>> 2) Refactor the need_legacy check. It's fairly naive at the moment. We
>> could easily cover the 'null' edge case by checking:
>>
>>  [[ -z $INTERFACES && -z $interface ]]
>>
>> 3) Change where deprecation messages are printed -- i.e., only once
>> we're about to execute some net-tools based logic do we print a message.
>> This is perhaps the least desireable, imo, because it's also prone to
>> creating the most amount of spammage. I wouldn't want to see the warning
>> printed more than once per invocation.
> 
> I'd be wary of disabling network by default. I agree with Dave's #2
> suggestion though.

ACK.

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