Re: Consider letting /etc/rc.d/mountall require mdnsd

[Eric Haszlakiewicz <erh%nimenees.com@localhost>]

On 2/15/2010 12:05 PM, Erik Bertelsen wrote:
...
> Actually this works fine when I issue a 'mount -a' command, but the
> file system is not mounted during boot because /etc/rc.d/mountall runs
> before /etc/mdnsd.
>
> Changing /etc/rc.d/mountall as follows:
>
>   diff /etc/rc.d/mountall .
> 6c6
> <  # REQUIRE: mountcritremote named mdnsd ypbind
> ---
> > # REQUIRE: mountcritremote named ypbind
>
>
> i.e. by adding mdnsd to the REQUIRE line causes mdnsd to start before
> mountall is called and now the mount succeeds.
>
> I'm not really an expert on the inner workings and dependencies of the
> rc.d scripts, so I just want to solicit comments to the above change,
> which at least in my case seems to work according to my intention (and
> hopefully not harm anyone not using mdnsd).

mountcritremote mounts anything that mdnsd might need, right? (like /var 
perhaps?)  If so, this change looks reasonable to me.  The thing that 
matters is the dependencies of the mdnsd program.

eric