Public SourceMage Discussion List

[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

Quoting Jason Flatt <jason AT flattfamily.com>:
> On Friday 09 July 2004 1:50 am, Lyon Lemmens wrote:
> > Since some time (I forgot just about when, but at least a month ago) I've
> > got a problem that my autofs nfs mounts are not functional when my system
> > is rebooted.
> >
> > I've tracked it down to autofs being started before nfs. So, reading up on
> > simpleinit-msb and going through the smlg-scripts in /etc/init.d, it looks
> > as if a "NEEDS='+nfs'" in autofs should fix the order.
> >
> > But it doesn't. So I added a PROVIDES="nfs" in the nfs script. Which
> didn't
> > help either.
> >
> > Somebody out there that can tell me how to do this properly?
> 
> If you remove the +, you don't need the PROVIDES, like this: NEEDS="nfs".  
> Then autofs is depending on the nfs script and not the service.

If the "nfs" script is not executable (i.e. disabled), will autofs still be 
able
to start? I'm asking because this sounds like a bug in our script 
dependencies,
but not everyone uses NFS, but they might use autofs, and I don't want to 
break
one just to fix the other.

-sandalle

-- 
Eric Sandall                     |  Source Mage GNU/Linux Developer
eric AT sandall.us PGP: 0xA8EFDD61  |  http://www.sourcemage.org/
http://eric.sandall.us/          |  SysAdmin @ Inst. Shock Physics @ WSU
http://counter.li.org/  #196285  |  http://www.shock.wsu.edu/

----------------------------------------------------------------
This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.