<random shots in the dark> Does the mount command print anything out when it boots? It's odd that it wouldn't print any message at all. Is there something in rc.local that is providing a necessary service to an NFS mount, that's being called AFTER the mount command? Like starting bind or adding a route or something? What if you make it the last command that runs, and put a sleep 60 right before it? Maybe some service is starting but isn't done initializing by the time it hits that part of rc.local? Boot it as you have it now (not working) and do an lsmod, then do the mount and do another lsmod, and see if there's some kernel module being loaded, that for some reason can't be loaded at boot? Oh, and any reason why not put it in fstab? I think it's smart enough to handle that properly (get network up before mounting NFS mounts). BSD handles this correctly at least. On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 10:17, B_o_B wrote: > Wednesday, March 17, 2004 @ 10:12:49 AM Central Standard Time > > Hi All. I have a small issue I cannot seem to resolve over here. > > I am trying to make some things available on a public FTP server. The > things I am trying to make available are on a different partition, > than the normal content of the FTP (document root). > > Using Proftp 1.2.9. > Added the "DefaultRoot ~" option to keep users & anonymous > "jailed" (I really don't want people to wander out of their area). > > There is not enough drive capacity to just > simply copy the material into the public FTP area. > > Due to the chroot "Jailed" option (DefaulRoot ~), > I cannot add a symlink to the material (will not work). > > To get around this, I manually made a duplicate mount point in the FTP > area to the new material. I issued the following: > (the default ftp document root dir is /home/ftp) > > mkdir /home/ftp/new-stuff > > mount --bind /var/for-ftp/new-stuff /home/ftp/new-stuff > > this works great. I log into the FTP as "anonymous", ls, cd into > new-stuff, everything is their, & I am happy :) > > So, to finish the job, I want to add this command to the system > start-up config, so this will always be available. > I added the following to my /etc/rc.d/rc.local (Slackware) file: > > mount --bind /var/for-ftp/new-stuff /home/ftp/new-stuff > > I reboot the box to make sure all is well, log into the FTP, cd into > new-stuff, nothing is their, & I am Sad :( > > I checked & checked & moved where the command loads in my rc.local, > but no good. When the systems boots, I can log in & manually issue > the command & it works again. > > What am I doing wrong? I cannot figure out why this command will not > work in my rc.local? > > Any ideas or pointers would be greatly appreciated. > > Many Thanks & Kind Regards, > > Robert (aka B_o_B) David Felix De Mars > West Longitude 90' 15' 43" > http://b-o-b.homelinux.com > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list