Re: Service start contingencies?

2015-10-23 Thread John L. Cunningham
On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 05:11:56PM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: > > * As you're using SysVinit, everything is script, so update the nbd > initscript to do something like "fping BoxB" in a loop. It's not > pretty, but it will do the job. It certainly beats my idea of prepending it with "sleep 300",

Re: Service start contingencies?

2015-10-23 Thread Darac Marjal
On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 11:10:13AM -0400, John L. Cunningham wrote: Hi All, I have one debian box (Box A) that's connected to a bunch of video cameras. I have another debian box (Box B) with a RAID that is exported via NBD and mounted on Box A to save camera output. Box A is a lot newer and

Service start contingencies?

2015-10-23 Thread John L. Cunningham
Hi All, I have one debian box (Box A) that's connected to a bunch of video cameras. I have another debian box (Box B) with a RAID that is exported via NBD and mounted on Box A to save camera output. Box A is a lot newer and faster than Box B, so after a power event it is the first to boot. Si