Sounds like you want autofs: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Autofs
Regards, - Robert On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 5:07 PM, John Meissen <j...@meissen.org> wrote: > > Do we still have any Ubuntu experts in the group? > > I have a number of systems that have cross-mounted filesystems. Generally > things work OK, but after a power outage today I noticed an issue during boot. > > One of the systems didn't have the nfs server running (other issues), and my > main server stopped during the boot process and waited for manual > intervention. > Something like "remote system not responding, press "S" to skip". > > WTF. > > I have the "bg" option specified in fstab. If I run the mount command manually > after the system is up, the mount immediately backgrounds. > > This is exactly the OPPOSITE of the way I would want a server to act. There > may > be no one here to intervene after a power failure, and the LAST thing I want > to > happen is for the system to hang during the boot if a remote system is > temporarily unavailable. That's exactly the time I would want it to background > itself. > > Can someone tell me wtf is going on, and how I can change this behavior? > > john- > > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug