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[Dylan <dylan@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 26 April 2007, Evan Ingram wrote:
> Hi there
>
> how can i insert a time delay into the booting of a server?
>
> one of my servers has ldap user and authentication data that my terminal
> server uses. after a power failure and when power is restored both
> machines come back to life at the same time, but i need the ldap server
> to be ready before the terminal server. I figured a simple pause would
> suffice as the servers are running 99% of the time and power failures
> are few and far between so im not considering wakeonlan, not sure if the
> network card supports it anyway.

I had a similar problem with picking up nfs shares. I found the easiest 
solution was to add the necessary commands to boot.local for restarting 
relevant services at the end of the boot process. In your case that would be 
the ldap dependent services on the terminal server.

Dylan

>
> thanks


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