[Devil-Linux-discuss] Automatic NFS mounts

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Hello,

I just started experimenting with DL and this is my first post to this
list.

I would like to have remote NFS directories mounted automatically when =
the
system boots. It there a proper way to do this with DL? I would prefer =
not
to have to alter the standard CD iso image, if possible. Here's what I'=
ve
tried so far:

First a mount point is required for each NFS mount. I created these by
adding mkdir commands to the file
/etc/init.d/boot.local

E.g.:
mkdir /shm/nfsmnt && mkdir /shm/nfsmnt/nfs1 /shm/nfsmnt/nfs2

This works ok. Is there a better way?

Next I need to mount the remote directories. This is usually done by ad=
ding
entries to /etc/fstab with the "auto" option. The problem with this is =
that
NFS requires the portmap daemon to be running, but DL tries to mount fs=
tab
entries before portmap has been started, so all the NFS entries in fsta=
b
fail.

Is there a place that I could put a command (mount -a -t nfs) that woul=
d be
executed after the networking and portmap service is started? My only
thoughts on this are to create a new service, e.g. nfsmount, in /etc/in=
it.d
containing the mount command and have it prioritised such that it runs
after portmap.

If adding a new service is the best way to do this, what is the proper =
way
to install it? Should I manually add the links in the /etc/init.d/rcX.d=

directories, or is there a command that can be run to do this? (maybe
insserv?) Is there a way to add the new service to the setup program
without changing the CD?

If it doesn't exist already and I missed it, it would be nice to have a=

service file, similar to boot.local, except that is the last thing to r=
un,
instead of very early in the boot process.

Thanks,
Scott A.=