[5676] in Athena Bugs
rt 7.0F: mkserv
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (qjb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Mon Aug 6 10:17:40 1990
From: qjb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 90 10:17:15 -0400
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, testers@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
System name: atalanta
Type and version: RTPC-ROMPC 7.0F
Display type: mono
What were you trying to do?
mkserv nfs on a new server
What's wrong:
it didn't copy /usr/etc/update_server local
What should have happened:
For an NFS server, it should have. This is not fixed in
7.1 (hence the CC to testers) which I know because update_server
is still a symlink on soup even though I run mkserv nfs.
Better, rather than making the general case be that
update_server should be local and SMSUPDATE true, add
a supported "smsupdate" server option to mkserv. This
would be trivial -- all it would have to do is remind the user
to get the right srvtab and register the right hesiod
entries, make update_server local and set SMSUPDATE to
true in rc.conf...
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
mkserv(8). The mkserv manual page does not mention
where the configuration files it uses are. This would
be very helpful because then I could have checked to see whether
the bug was fixed in 7.1 without having to run the program...
