Subject: bug#226: nfs-common: rpc.statd still gets started by service files

From: Mark Hindley <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2023 14:55:27 +0000

Control: tags -1 unreproducible

Elliott,

On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 06:19:12PM -0700, Elliott Mitchell wrote:
> Package: nfs-common
> Version: 1:1.3.4-2.1
> 
> Subject tells the story.  Devuan's nfs-common package has the
> /lib/systemd/system/rpc-statd.service file, and <something> causes
> rpc.statd to be started irregardless of the setting in
> /etc/default/nfs-common (which *should* disable statd if it isn't
> needed).

I can't reproduce this. Setting

 NEED_STATD=no

in /etc/default/nfs-common prevents rpc-statd from being started.

The .service files are only used by systemd and are harmless in themselves.

Mark