Paul Cupis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > On Sunday 02 November 2003 19:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Küster) > wrote: >> I have become the (sponsored) maintainer of netenv, a package that >> creates a link to it's /etc/init.d/ file in /etc/rcS.d/. Up to >> recently, it was only depending on stuff in /bin and /sbin. However, >> as the result of a bug report I have introduced a call to >> /usr/bin/stat. >> >> Now I wonder wether this is correct? I couldn't find anything in the >> policy, but wanted to be sure: Is it required that scripts in >> /etc/rcS.d can be cleanly executed even if only / has been mounted, >> not /usr/? > > When exactly does the script run? According to /etc/rcS.d/README, after > S60 all local and NFS filesystems should have been mounted.
Thank you for pointing me to that. In fact it's started as /etc/rcS.d/S40netenv, because it is needed before /etc/rcS.d/S40networking. This means: - netenv (as it currently is, using /usr/bin/stat) cannot be used on a system that has /usr on an nfs filesystem - anybody who reasonably wants to use netenv, a program for laptops or other portables, will have /usr mounted locally - still I have to think about a way to prevent harm when somebody accidently installs it on a machine using nfs for /usr. As I don't use nfs at all, I don't know how to figure this out safely during configure. Can you point me to the right place? Thanks, Frank -- Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie
