On Tue, 24 Sep 1996, Joey Hess wrote: > > You should propagate the PPP startup script before the NFS > > mounts occur. This is a site specific configuration that > > probably isn't that common. Never the less, I think Debian > > 1.2 will probably deal with this better (I think). In the > > I hope so. I didn't have much trouble getting the nfs stuff working, but > I didn't like what I had to do and I felt it should work better out of the > box without requiring editing of the rc scripts.
Well, I don't know about that. I can't get ppp working under Solaris without editing the asppp scripts and creating a startup script, etc. Of course, Debian is better than Solaris :-) I know that Bruce plans on including some kind of ppp configuration utility in 1.2 that would produce a chat or diald script. It shouldn't be too difficult to add the functionality of choosing where to place it in the startup. Most people don't have a "full time" ppp connection AFAIK. I believe the average ppp user only connects when she/he needs to and works "offline" the rest of the time. I could be wrong though. Slackware has a section of its installation that sets up NFS mounts. Maybe Debian should look into including something like this too? Maybe it has it and I forgot? > > > system in front of me right now (mine's floating in the > > Pacific at the moment :-)), so this is the best I can do. > > This should get your ppp up prior to going to the mount > > phase. > > Are you the guy who's doing data collection with a underwater linux > system? I think that'd make a great Linux Journal article :-) No, I'm the guy who just moved overseas and doesn't have any of his stuff because its being shipped via ocean liner. My wife and I both pulled a smooth move and packed up all of our shoes (except the ones we were wearing when the movers came). As much as I miss my Debian system, we can't wait to get our shoes! (It should be noted here that my wife does _not_ miss my Debian system ;-)) > > I think Solaris 2.5+ has a functional fuser command > > that could be used to kill all processes (close all open > > filehandles) on a mount point. The shutdown procedure could > > then kill processes on NFS mounted filesystems first, > > unmount NFS filesystems, then do its normal routine of > > killing all processes and umounting all filesystems. > > > > Anybody know if Debian's fuser command supports this? > > Anybody got any other ideas here? > > It looks like fuser will support this, it has a -k flag that will kill all > processes accessing a file. fuser -m -k /home should kill every process > using the /home partition. Well, I'd have to have a Debian system running to do some testing, and we'd have to have a way of dealing with automounted filesystems (addressing the correct mount point), but it looks like we should be able to implement a shutdown procedure that takes care of NFS mounts prior killing all processes. If you're interested in pursuing this, please e-mail me privately. I'd be glad to try to implement something and submit it for inclusion in later Debian releases (unless someone already has :-)). Thanks. Richard G. Roberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] 011-81-3-3437-7810 - Tokyo, Japan -- ******************************************************************************* Bear Stearns is not responsible for any recommendation, solicitation, offer or agreement or any information about any transaction, customer account or account activity contained in this communication. *******************************************************************************
