NFS Client and Automounter

[Fred Martin_1]

I was just in SAM and noticed that NFS Client and Automounter are both enabled and running.

I'm assuming that these must have defaulted to being enabled - I went from 10.20 to 11.00 a few months ago.

This is the only unix server on the network; people run a database package via telnet and it serves sendmail, but I don't export any file systems.

Can I shut these both off without worry? When running 10.20 I don't believe I had these features turned on, if they were even available.

[A. Clay Stephenson · Accepted solution]

From the perspective of this box, it doesn't matter if you export any filesystems. The question is do you mount any other system's filesystem on this box. If the answer is no then you can disable both of these.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Fred:

If you don't run NFS and you don't want to use 'pfs_mount' [because in 11.x there are patches to implement "native" mounting of RockRidge CDs without the dreaded 'pfs_mount' beast], then you can disarm this. Edit '/etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf':

NFS_CLIENT=0
NFS_SERVER=0
START_MOUNTD=0

Regards!

...JRF...

[Fred Martin_1]

Nope, this server is alone in the world, I will disable both.

Fred

[Fred Martin_1]

I used SAM to immediately disable NFS Client and Automounter, but I checked the nfsconf file and SAM did not change it.

So, I edited the changes as above. Also, there is a line:

AUTOMOUNT=1

I assume I can set this to 0 as well?

[A. Clay Stephenson]

After turning off the NFS Client, you certainly want to tern off the Automounter.