NFS won't mount at boot

[Gavin McDonald]

Ok, in a classic keyboard-before-brain scenario, I neglected to do a simple
scan of the boot logs;  

Doing so almost certainly points to the boot order, bringing up NFS before
NIS, (and the NAS authenticates via NIS...)  

So to rephrase my earlier post,

"How do I use chkconfig to start NIS _before_ NFS?"

-G



Regards,

Gavin McDonald
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EVI Logistic Enterprises
email: me at gavitron.com
phone: (604) 313-3845



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gavin McDonald [mailto:gavitron at gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 6:21 PM
> To: 'General Red Hat Linux discussion list'
> Subject: NFS won't mount at boot
> 
> Hi,
> 
> This may have been asked before, But I can't seem to find the answer by
> google, or my list archives;
> 
> I have many RHEL3 machines, each with three NFS mounts from a NAS device.
> Each machine gets a few identical lines added to /etc/fstab, and they all
> mount the network drives at boot, as expected.  On a batch of machines I
> am building right now, (Same version of RHEL, same /etc/fstab,)  the NFS
> mounts wont come up at boot, but a 'mount -a' anytime after boot brings
> the drives up immediately.
> 
> I have the NAS device declared in /etc/hosts, and I reference it by name
> in /etc/fstab.  /etc/nsswitch contains "hosts: files nis dns" too, yet
> this still smells like a name resolution problem.  Have I missed anything?
> 
> I have vague recollections of a fix to this that involved changing
> /etc/rc.d/S files, but I am at a loss to remember, or even locate such a
> thing.  Maybe I remember incorrectly...?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Gavin McDonald
> ========================
> EVI Logistic Enterprises
> email: me at gavitron.com
> phone: (604) 313-3845
>