Debian startup scripts...

2001-02-15 Thread Green, Alfred \(A.\)
Hello Tony, Please excuse the intrusion, but I came across your name while skimming through a Debian listserv.. I am in the process of setting a up a Debian 2.2 (Potato) on a PIA box. I was able to successfully ping the outside world via my firewall, and was also able to use a text browser (lynx)

Re: debian startup scripts & dedicated ppp

1996-09-25 Thread Richard G. Roberto
On Tue, 24 Sep 1996, Joey Hess wrote: > > You should propagate the PPP startup script before the NFS > > mounts occur. This is a site specific configuration that > > probably isn't that common. Never the less, I think Debian > > 1.2 will probably deal with this better (I think). In the > > I h

Re: debian startup scripts & dedicated ppp

1996-09-25 Thread Joey Hess
> You should propagate the PPP startup script before the NFS > mounts occur. This is a site specific configuration that > probably isn't that common. Never the less, I think Debian > 1.2 will probably deal with this better (I think). In the I hope so. I didn't have much trouble getting the nfs

Re: debian startup scripts & dedicated ppp

1996-09-24 Thread Richard G. Roberto
On Mon, 23 Sep 1996, Joey Hess wrote: > I have a dedicated ppp script, and it doesn't seem that debian's startup > scripts make any provisions for this. I've modified the init.d/ppp script > to start up ppp, and made it be run on boot and shutdown. > > There's a filesystem I always nfs mount ov

Re: debian startup scripts & dedicated ppp

1996-09-24 Thread Scott Barker
The simple solution to your problem is to put the 'noauto' option on your nfs directory entry in /etc/fstab, and then put an explicit mount command (and corresponding umount command) in the init.d/ppp script. You could also setup amd, but that could be overkill for your situation. -- Scott Barke

debian startup scripts & dedicated ppp

1996-09-24 Thread Joey Hess
I have a dedicated ppp script, and it doesn't seem that debian's startup scripts make any provisions for this. I've modified the init.d/ppp script to start up ppp, and made it be run on boot and shutdown. There's a filesystem I always nfs mount over ppp (it's in fstab), and when I'm booting up,