On 2005-04-01T22:19:02, Alasdair G Kergon <agk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 11:09:04PM +0200, christophe varoqui wrote: > > Do we really want to do complicated things to close that window ? I > > would guess not. > > In other words, if the paths can't survive the window between initrd > running and init scripts completing, the machine doesn't deserve to boot. > > And if you want the daemon in single-user mode, you can start it by hand. > > Fair point. > > So is there ever a requirement to run the daemon while /var is read-only? We ran into the same problem, and just decided to invoke /sbin/multipath once during the boot/ sequence, and then start the daemon in the runlevel itself. Note that LSB apparently also suggests that no unneeded daemons are running in single-user mode; but I couldn't find that detailed anywhere else. Sincerely, Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@xxxxxxx> -- High Availability & Clustering SUSE Labs, Research and Development SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - A Novell Business