Re: [Devil-linux-develop] Setting up directories in /var during boot.

[Dick M. <di...@fo...>]

On 05/14/10 18:25, Heiko Zuerker wrote:
> Hey,
>
> would it help to have multiple boot.xxx scripts?
> E.g. boot.mountfs, boot.network, boot.last ?
> We would consider those user-scripts, just like the boot.local one.

If I understand the OP's problem correctly (which I might not) his 
problem arises because his spool directory is in ram and so its 
structure does not persist over reboots.

This may be a common difficulty for apps in diskless systems.  I think 
the problem might be resolved by having another script which is run 
after all disks, logical volumes etc are present but before any apps are 
started.  I think this can be done from a script in /etc/init.d/boot.d 
similar to boot.local but which is run last.  It could be called 
lateboot.local.

One issue that might arise is that the network is not running at this 
point and hostname has been set to a default value. Setting the hostname 
to a configured value in localnet may be a way around that.

Since such changes reside entirely in /etc a solution like this can be 
implemented by users on an ad-hoc basis and thus not impact the release 
of 1.4.

Dick