Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1461 mails)

[Hans Witvliet <hwit@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2009-05-16 at 16:45 +0200, Anders Johansson wrote:
> On Saturday 16 May 2009 16:29:42 Randall R Schulz wrote:
> > From the header of /etc/init.d/nfs:
> >
> > ### BEGIN INIT INFO
> > # Provides:       nfs
> > # Required-Start: $network $portmap
> > # Required-Stop:  $network $portmap
> > # Default-Start:  3 5
> > # Default-Stop:   0 1 2 6
> > # Short-Description: NFS client services
> > # Description:    All necessary services for NFS clients
> > ### END INIT INFO
> >
> >
> > I believe that's meant to keep nfs from running until the network and
> > the port mapper are initialized.
>
> The portmapper (or in 11.1 rpcbind) listens to "all available interfaces". 
> This means it can start even if only localhost is up.
>
> Unless you added your network interface to MANDATORY_DEVICES in 
> /etc/sysconfig/network/config, either by editing the config file directly or 
> by setting the interface as mandatory in YaST, the startup script is not 
> going 
> to wait for it, it will allow it to initialize in the background.

1)
hence my previous suggestion to raise
WAIT_FOR_INTERFACES="20" to 120
in/etc/sysconfig/network/config.
Then it will bg after 120 seconds, instead of 20.

2)
It might also be educational to make a little command that does a ping
command, just before the nfs-client is started.
If icmp fails, no point in trying anything else

3)
Perhaps also trying to use the ip-address instead of the name...
(problems at that early moment with name-resolving?)
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