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 ======================== EVI Logistic Enterprises email: me@xxxxxxxxxxxx phone: (604) 313-3845 > -----Original Message----- > From: Gavin McDonald [mailto:gavitron@xxxxxxxxx] > 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@xxxxxxxxxxxx > phone: (604) 313-3845 > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
