Re: [suse-sles-e] chkconfig boot.local always returns off

From: C'est Pierre (cestpierre_at_gmail.com)
Date: Fri Jan 05 2007 - 19:15:22 CET


Message-ID: <5485940d0701051015v3c9ccfb5hc5c79f32b6206008@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 18:15:22 +0000
From: "C'est Pierre" <cestpierre@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] chkconfig boot.local always returns off

On 1/2/07, Manfred Hollstein <manfred@die-hollsteins.de> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 02 Jan 2007, 20:26:18 +0100, C'est Pierre wrote:
> > [...]
> > Thank you all,
> >
> > I get it, however, my script looks like this:
> >
> > /bin/mount -a
> > echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/disable_cap_mlock # (Yes, I know I could do this
> from
> > /etc/sysctl.conf ;-)
> >
> >
> > But none of the NFS filesystems get mounted during boot.
> > Any ideas why?
>
> Yep. That's because the network hasn't been initialized at this stage.
> "boot.local" is *just* for _local_ services, ie. those that don't rely
> on the network etc. You should instead activate the "nfs" service (e.g.
> using chkconfig or insserv) and off you go; here's the description of
> the service (taken from /etc/init.d/nfs):
>
> ### BEGIN INIT INFO
> # Provides: nfs
> # Required-Start: $network $portmap
> # Required-Stop:
> # Default-Start: 3 5
> # Default-Stop:
> # Description: Imports remote Network File Systems (NFS)
> ### END INIT INFO
>
> When you look at the script and see what it does, you'll see it'll just
> mount the NFS file systems.
>
> > The server runs at run-level 3, BTW.
> >
> > Thanks
>
> HTH, cheers.
>
> l8er
> manfred
>
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Hi Manfred,

Thanks, however, chkconfig nfs on all servers, reveals it being on.

No luck..still..

Thanks



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