Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Automatic NFS mounts

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

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Hi,

just a quick answer, since I don't have much time.
Your best bet is to copy the script /etc/init.d/skeleton and add your
commands there.
As you already suspected, add the script with insserv to the boot order.

Of course don't forgett to run a save-config before you reboot. ;-)

cu
  Heiko

On Mon, September 25, 2006 15:28, sa...@pe... wrote:
>

>
> 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
> adding 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 fstab entries before portmap has been started, so all the NFS
> entries in fstab fail.
>
> Is there a place that I could put a command (mount -a -t nfs) that would
> 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/init.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 run,
>  instead of very early in the boot process.
>
> Thanks,
> Scott
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Regards
  Heiko Zuerker
  http://www.devil-linux.org

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