Buchan Milne wrote: > > Your mention of automount made me assume this was NFS. But if it is not, > why not "init 1" and then remove the contents of /home? No need to mount > it from another box?
automount in this context refers to an fstab line such as: dev/hdg10 /home ext2 defaults 0 2 You will note that since there is no noauto parameter, this partition will be automatically mounted at boot time. As I understand it, init 1 still performs the mount requests in /etc/fstab and therefore hides the previous contents of the mount points. Each home partition is machine-specific, and does not involve an NFS mount from another box. > |>It shouldn't be necessary to change both resolv.conf and hosts should it? > | > | Yes, absolutely! resolv.conf contains the dotted quad addresses of > | your ISP's name servers and must be present on all networked machines, > | including the gateway. hosts contains the names and dotted quads of all > | other machines on the network (no network DNS) and is present on all of > | them. hosts is arranged in /etc/nsswitch on all machines to always be > | consulted before the ISP's name servers. > > This is of course unless you setup a local forwarding dns, in which case > you only need to adjust resolv.conf, and if you have dhcp setup to tell > clients where the dns server is, you don't even need to do that. Kindly don't waste my time. I covered all this. > |>Why not just choose NTP setup in expert install mode (after timezone > setting)? Or > |>put ntpdate in cron? > | > | Because the machine does not spend all its time connected to the > | Internet. ntpd would hang the machine in this condition while the > | attempted Internet access timed out. > > In my experience, ntpd does not do this. I am surprised. > Of course, there are many ways to kill a cat. Exactly, so don't waste my time. -- Ron. [au]
