fritzz@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu (fritz zaucker) (11/28/89)
Another hint for networked unix users. My be it answers some questions about mounting in the last articles. If you want to mount NFS directories at boot time these have to be specified in /etc/fstab. There are no problems as long as the servers are on the same ethernet segment. At the installation atour site the servers are on different segments and so I had to use the command /etc/route add default servername 3 to get through to these machines. The point is if you want files mounted at boot time then this command (or a script) has to be called before the script that mounts the files in /etc/fstab. On my machine it is the file /etc/rc3.d/S72nfs So you have to put a file into this directory with the necessary route command(s) and name it with a number lower than 72 (in this case). No day without learning about Unix. Fritz Zaucker P.S.: By the way, did anybody ever think about the following sentence, which to me occurs very self contradicting: "This page intentionally left free."