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Operating Systems Linux Question Regarding mounting a drive and running a software Post 302895773 by ramky79 on Wednesday 2nd of April 2014 10:39:48 AM

04-02-2014

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Question Regarding mounting a drive and running a software

Hello;

Whenever I reboot a system which one takes precedence; mounting the drives or running the init.d scripts

Here is my situation:
Every time I boot my system, I need to mount a RAID10 drive and run a software whose config files are on the RAID10 drive

I want the software to only start after checking if the mount has been mounted successfully

I have the following code in my init script

Code:

if mount | grep $mountpoint >/dev/null ; then
echo " starting the software"
# instructions to start the software
else
echo " Unable to start the software"
fi

My question?
Do i really have to use this if condition in my init script; What is the actual precedence of mounting drives and kicking off init scripts?
BTW, I have the mount point registered in /etc/fstab.

Thank you,
R

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autofs

AUTOFS(8)						      System Manager's Manual							 AUTOFS(8)

NAME

       /etc/rc.d/init.d/autofs - Control Script for automounter

SYNOPSIS

       /etc/rc.d/init.d/autofs start|stop|restart|reload|status

DESCRIPTION

       autofs  controls  the operation of the automount(8) daemons running on the Linux system. Usually autofs is invoked at system boot time with
       the start parameter and at shutdown time with the stop parameter. The autofs script can also be manually invoked by the system  administra-
       tor to shut down, restart or reload the automounters.

OPERATION

       autofs  will  consult a configuration file /etc/auto.master (see auto.master(5)) by default to find mount points on the system. For each of
       those mount points automount(8) will mount and start a thread, with the appropriate parameters, to manage the mount point.

       /etc/rc.d/init.d/autofs reload will check the current auto.master map against running daemons. It will kill  those  daemons  whose  entries
       have changed and then start daemons for new or changed entries.

       If  a  map is modified then the change will become effective immediately. If the auto.master map is modified then the autofs script must be
       rerun to activate the changes.

       /etc/rc.d/init.d/autofs status will display the status of, automount(8) ,running or not.

SEE ALSO

       automount(8), autofs(5), auto.master(5).  autofs_ldap_auth.conf(5)

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Christoph Lameter <chris@waterf.org>, for the Debi GNU/Linux system.  Edited by H. Peter Anvin  <hpa@trans-
       meta.com>.

								    9 Sep 1997								 AUTOFS(8)