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Bug 689898

Summary: add comment to some mount lines to avoid confusion
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Bill Nottingham <notting>
Component: initscriptsAssignee: initscripts Maintenance Team <initscripts-maint-list>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: qe-baseos-daemons
Severity: unspecified Docs Contact:
Priority: unspecified    
Version: 5.6CC: azelinka, harald, jscotka, rvokal
Target Milestone: rc   
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With this update, an explanatory comment has been added to the /rc.d/init.d/netfs and the /rc.d/rc.sysinit init scripts regarding the "mount -t no*" syntax.
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: 689899 (view as bug list) Environment:
Last Closed: 2011-07-21 08:34:04 UTC Type: ---
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Description Bill Nottingham 2011-03-22 18:29:12 UTC
Description of problem:

Upstream git commit 5e2b364ebd6808c43f46f7853d2fe6de4edbada1.

commit 5e2b364ebd6808c43f46f7853d2fe6de4edbada1
Author: Bill Nottingham <notting>
Date:   Tue Mar 22 14:27:11 2011 -0400

    Add a comment explaining the oft-confused -t nox,y,z mount syntax.
    
    The 'no' applies to all listed filesystem types, not just the first. Since
    this comes up in bugzilla once every month or two, explicitly comment it.

diff --git a/rc.d/init.d/netfs b/rc.d/init.d/netfs
index 8d9854f..77a0a68 100755
--- a/rc.d/init.d/netfs
+++ b/rc.d/init.d/netfs
@@ -98,6 +98,7 @@ case "$1" in
           fi
          }
        touch /var/lock/subsys/netfs
+       # The 'no' applies to all listed filesystem types. See mount(8).
        action $"Mounting other filesystems: " mount -a -t nonfs,nfs4,cifs,ncpfs,gfs
        ;;
   stop)
diff --git a/rc.d/rc.sysinit b/rc.d/rc.sysinit
index ad2c83e..6067ea8 100755
--- a/rc.d/rc.sysinit
+++ b/rc.d/rc.sysinit
@@ -494,6 +494,7 @@ fi
 # Mount all other filesystems (except for NFS and /proc, which is already
 # mounted). Contrary to standard usage,
 # filesystems are NOT unmounted in single user mode.
+# The 'no' applies to all listed filesystem types. See mount(8).
 if [ "$READONLY" != "yes" ] ; then
        action $"Mounting local filesystems: " mount -a -t nonfs,nfs4,smbfs,ncpfs,cifs,gfs,gfs2 -O no_netdev
 else

Comment 1 RHEL Program Management 2011-03-22 18:30:26 UTC
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release.  Product Management has requested
further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed
products.  This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update
release.

Comment 6 Tomas Capek 2011-07-13 12:28:30 UTC
    Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
    accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team.
    
    New Contents:
With this update, an explanatory comment has been added to the /rc.d/init.d/netfs and the /rc.d/rc.sysinit init scripts regarding the "mount -t no*" syntax.

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2011-07-21 08:34:04 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-1081.html

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2011-07-21 12:40:57 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-1081.html