The 6.0 initscripts do not allow mounting /usr via nfs because of many dependencies on programs on the /usr partition. For example, xargs is used when creating the list of interfaces to bring up, but xargs is found in /usr/bin (which is not available since the network interface isn't even up yet). And the ypbind script uses ypwhich, which is also in /usr/bin. (And there may be other--these are just the ones I've found so far.) The only real solution to this is to eliminate all uses of programs in /usr from the initscripts, even if it means copying or moving needed program to /bin or /sbin. In addition, shutting down or rebooting the system won't work because many of the system daemons (including syslogd and klogd) are being run from the /usr partition. This means that /usr cannot be unmounted, and the system will wait indefinitely. I've solved this temporarily by making netfs and network the last things to be killed in rc0.d and rc6.d, but a more elegant solution would be to make sure that none of the system daemons are run from /usr, either by placing the programs in /sbin or by copying them to /tmp before running them.
OK... The xargs thing in network was a bug; it's fixed in initscripts-4.18-1, which will be in the next Raw Hide. AFAIK, the examples of stuff from /usr used before netfs is: - ypwhich in ypbind, which we'll fix - apmd & ypserv, which we probably won't. (There's a chicken and egg problem with ypbind and ypserv anyways) Are there any others? Similarly, the only daemons run from /usr that are killed after netfs are (that I'm aware of): - apmd & ypserv, which we probably won't change - syslogd/klogd, which we probably will... What else have you noticed? ------- Email Received From "Michael P. Plezbert" <plezbert.edu> 05/17/99 11:12 -------
I did find one other problem after I submitted the first message: rc.sysinit sets the clock before the nfs partitions are mounted, which means that the /etc/localtime link is broken at the time.
The /etc/localtime problem should be fixed with the latest initscripts (4.22) and timeconfig (3.0); these make /etc/localtime be a copy of the timezone data file instead of a symlink (the name of the file is stored in /etc/sysconfig/clock.) Hence, you can set the clock as soon as the initscripts start.
OK, I believe this should be fixed as of: initscripts > 4.23. apmd >= 3.0beta8-1 ypserv >= 1.3.6.94-2 ypbind >= 3.3-21 all of which should be in the next Raw Hide release.