If you can live with ipnat not being started until the end of
	bootup then /etc/rc.local would be the ideal place to put it.

		David/absolute

                -=-  "Why am I seething with this animosity"  -=-

On Sun, 24 May 1998, Dan McMahill wrote:

> 
> 
> I just replaced the drive on my machine and at the same time went
> to seperate / and /usr partitions.  After that the machine would
> not boot properly due to the order in which /etc/rc does things.
> 
> The relevent stuff from /etc/rc is:
> 
> umount -a >/dev/null 2>&1
> mount /
> 
> {snip}
> # set hostname, turn on network
> echo 'starting network'
> sh /etc/netstart
> if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
>         exit 1
> fi
> 
> for fs in /usr /var $critical_filesystems; do
>         mount | (
>                         ismounted=no
>                         while read what _on on _type type; do
>                          if [ $on = $fs ]; then
>                                                 ismounted=yes
>                          fi
>                         done
>                 if [ $ismounted = no ]; then
>                         mount $fs >/dev/null 2>&1
>                 fi
>         )
> done
> 
> # "Critical" file systems are now mounted.
> 
> 
> The problem is this.  The last line of /etc/netstart has
> if [ -s /etc/netstart.local ]; then
>         . /etc/netstart.local
> fi
> 
> and in /etc/netstart.local I have:
> 
> dhclient ae1
> 
> CONFLINE="map ae1 10.0.0.0/8 -> `ifconfig ae1 | grep "inet.*netmask" | cut -d " " -f 2 `/32 portmap 
> tcp/udp 10000:20000"
> #CONFLINE="map ppp0 10.0.0.0/8 -> 18.62.4.149/32 portmap tcp/udp 10000:20000"
> echo $CONFLINE > /etc/ipnat.conf
> ipnat -f /etc/ipnat.conf
> 
> 
> Anyway the problem is that 'grep', and 'cut' live in /usr/bin and 'ipnat' lives
> in '/usr/sbin' but at this point /usr has not been mounted yet.  For now I've
> simply put 
> mount /usr >/dev/null 2>&1
> in /etc/rc just before the netstart stuff.
> 
> Is this the "right way" to make it work?  Should the mounting of critical
> file systems come before the network (or is this a problem for machines
> who nfs mount /usr).  Perhaps there's a better way to start ipnat and dhcp?
> 
> Comments?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> -- Dan
>