[CentOS] CentOS 7, NSF, "feature" [SOLVED]

[Noam Bernstein]

> On Feb 3, 2016, at 10:57 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> 
> The issue: NFS fails to start in CentOS 7 if it cannot resolve any of a
> list of hosts.
> 
> Well, my manager had to google to find the *truly* obscure solution that
> uses a deeply oddball syntax.
> 
> In /usr/lib/systemd/system/nfs-server.service, you edit the following line
> so that it looks like this:
> ExecStartPre=-/usr/sbin/exportfs -r
> 
> Notice the *deeply* weird syntax of "=-<cmd>". This apparently tells it
> that "a nonzero exit code" should be ignored and considered "success”.

Deeply weird or not, this is standard make (or at least gnu make) syntax.  I wouldn’t be surprised if the developers thought it was completely normal.

> 
> And, I read in the manpage for systemd.service that if you precede it with
> an @, it will pass arguments. Why it does not use the used-everywhere-else
> of *post*fixing those parms, I have no data.

My reading of the man page is that arguments are always passed, and @ just means that the first “argument” (i.e. 1st token after the executable name) is passed as argv[0] (which would normally the path of the executable itself).  But that’s entirely based on the man page, no actual experience.

								Noam