liquidzoo Posted August 26, 2003 Report Share Posted August 26, 2003 I have 2 NFS shares on my desktop that I mount with my laptop (they were way easier to set up than I thought they would be). Problem is, I want them to mount automatically at boot but Mandrake wants to start them before starting the PCMCIA card (for my wireless internet). Does anyone know if there's a file I can edit so that I can have the NFS shares mount after my PCMCIA starts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidzoo Posted August 27, 2003 Author Report Share Posted August 27, 2003 This is just an addition and a thought. Is there a file somewhere (I remember one pointed out to me at some point, but I don't remember where the conversation was or where the file was located) that defines the order that stuff is loaded at boot time? All I want to do is see if I can get the NFS shares to load after my wireless card does. I think I should be able to do this, but I can't find the files at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidzoo Posted August 27, 2003 Author Report Share Posted August 27, 2003 ok, guess I was wrong. On closer inspection of my boot order and process it seems that the pcmcia is loaded before it tries to mount the NFS shares, but I still get a message stating that it can't resolve the address (or something like that, it went by pretty fast) of where the shares are located, but I have no problem mounting them after I log in. Could it be a problem with my options? Here's the section from my /etc/mtab file that is relavent for the shares. You'll excuse me if I comment out my ip address, though: <my ip here>.client.attbi.com:/var/www/html /mnt/html nfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,soft,addr=<my ip here>,user=liquidzoo 0 0 <my ip here>.client.attbi.com:/home/liquidzoo/Downloads/laptop /mnt/laptop nfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,soft,addr=<my ip here>,user=liquidzoo 0 0 Anyone know what the issue might be? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted August 27, 2003 Report Share Posted August 27, 2003 First thats simple, your IP is sufficient without adding the FQDN (.client.attbi.com) your options are hostname.client.attbi.com OR IP, not a mixture of the 2. For general good practive heres how Init scripts work :D The order they do is simple. You have a set of directories in /etc/rc.d. These should be rc[1-6].d Each directory relates to what to do at that run levl and is divided into starting or stopping a service. Start being Sxx_<service> and tops (kill) K_xx_service. Anything but a S or K as the initial charecter are ignored. xx is anumber from 01-99. They start or stop in the order of the numbers (well alphabetically actually), if you rename a file from say S23pcmcia to S99pcmcia it will start last (supposing their is no file S99p[d-x] or S99[q-z].... ) So if you wanted to move NFS to start after you give it a higher number... Remember things like network need to be started after pcmcia ... When i mod em I just change the case to lower case and then copy to the new location. If you do something stupid you can get the original back! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidzoo Posted August 27, 2003 Author Report Share Posted August 27, 2003 Well, when I put <my ip here> at the begining of each of those lines, it's not exactly the ip address of my desktop computer. It's the same numbers, but separated by a - instead of a . It's part of the full hostname. the pcmcia is starting before it tries to mount the NFS, so that's no longer the issue. I just really want to know why it won't mount at boot time, but it will mount with no problems whatsoever after I log in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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