Hi. I recently installed (not upgraded) a Devuan Beowulf system which I intend to use as an iSCSI target server. I installed the targetcli-fb package for this.
I was rather surprised to find that there was no startup script included in the package to start iSCSI at boot time. However, I found https://www.server-world.info/en/note?os=Debian_10&p=iscsi&f=1 which quotes a startup script from Ubuntu (which seems odd to me since the author of the script is given as Thomas Goirand <z...@debian.org>, so why isn't it in the Debian package?) The script depends on the configfs pseudo file system being mounted, which doesn't happen in Beowulf. However then I found https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=840356 which discusses this very problem, and even specifically for the iSCSI target and the targetcli-fb package. That report indicates that sysvinit-2.95-3 contains the fix to mount configfs at boot time, and thereby let the targetcli-fb startup script do its job. Beowulf provides sysvinit-2.93-8, however chimaera has sysvinit-2.96-4, so I've installed that package on my beowulf machine: # aptitude show sysvinit Package: sysvinit Version: 2.96-4+devaun1 State: installed Automatically installed: no Priority: optional Section: admin Maintainer: Devuan Developers <devuan-...@lists.dyne.org> Architecture: amd64 Uncompressed Size: 9,216 PreDepends: init Description: System-V-like init utilities - transitional package Homepage: https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/sysvinit (Aside: I notice the version is mis-spelled as "2.96-4+devaun1") However, I still do not have the modified init scripts mentioned in the Debian bug report page and therefore iSCSI won't start on boot. Can anyone tell me: a) why doesn't the targetcli-fb package contain a startup script? b) why doesn't sysvinit-2.96-4 contain the patch added to sysvinit-2.95-3? c) how does anyone else get the iSCSI target to start on bootup? Thanks, Antony. -- If you ask a Yorkshireman whether he knows the German word for "egg", don't be surprised if he just smiles and says "Aye". Please reply to the list; please *don't* CC me. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
