Re: debian startup scripts & dedicated ppp
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
richr@bear.com
011-81-3-3437-7810 - Tokyo, Japan
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