Re: Serveur with encrypted partition : 2 steps boot.

[Erwan David <erwan@rail.eu.org>]

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 08:25:56AM CEST, Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> said:
> Erwan David wrote:
> > 2) add at the beginning of each /etc/init.d/myserv a test to stop if
> > the encrypted partition is not mounted
> > 
> > Neither of those solutions seems acceptable for me.
> > 
> > So if someone has an idea, I'm listening.
> 
> I would do one of two things.  Either I would remove the /etc/rc?.d/S*
> links associated with the services you don't want to start, or make
> the script not executable.  Then start them manually later as you
> wish.  Or I would install a /usr/sbin/policy-rc.d script that did your
> automated check and only allowed the services to start if the disk was
> mounted as you wish.
> 
> See the man page for invoke-rc.d for the first pass documentation.
> Then read the README.policy-rc.d.gz file.

Thanks, I was not aware of policy-rc.d, which seems to be exactly what I need.