Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu and NFS during boot

2017-03-17 Thread John Meissen
cathy.sm...@pnnl.gov said: > You can consider making the mounts soft mounts Also, 'soft mounts' determines error handling behavior of the mounted filesystem, and doesn't really apply to the mounting process itself. john- ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu and NFS during boot

2017-03-17 Thread John Meissen
cathy.sm...@pnnl.gov said: > No criticism intended, but cross mounting is not a good practice. You've > experienced one of the issues. Ideally you'd want to get rid of all cross > mounts. Practically, in a legacy environment, that may not be possible. You > can consider making the mounts soft

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu and NFS during boot

2017-03-17 Thread John Meissen
robert.ci...@gmail.com said: > Sounds like you want autofs: > > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Autofs No, different use case. What I want is for 'mount' to work the way it's supposed to: bg / fg Determines how the mount(8) command behaves if an attempt to mount an export fa

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu and NFS during boot

2017-03-17 Thread Smith, Cathy
No criticism intended, but cross mounting is not a good practice. You've experienced one of the issues. Ideally you'd want to get rid of all cross mounts. Practically, in a legacy environment, that may not be possible. You can consider making the mounts soft mounts or using automount. Cath

Re: [PLUG] serial communication over ethernet

2017-03-17 Thread Russell Senior
> "Russell" == Russell Senior writes: > "VY" == VY writes: VY> Hello All: I am looking for a mechanism from Linux to configure a VY> device that's a small ethernet server: VY> https://www.lantronix.com/wp-content/uploads/pdf/XPort-AR_CR.pdf VY> The initial steps involve configuring it

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu and NFS during boot

2017-03-17 Thread Robert Citek
Sounds like you want autofs: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Autofs Regards, - Robert On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 5:07 PM, John Meissen 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

Re: [PLUG] serial communication over ethernet

2017-03-17 Thread Russell Senior
> "VY" == VY writes: VY> Hello All: I am looking for a mechanism from Linux to configure a VY> device that's a small ethernet server: VY>https://www.lantronix.com/wp-content/uploads/pdf/XPort-AR_CR.pdf VY> The initial steps involve configuring its BAUD rate, IP address VY> etc.. On Wi

[PLUG] Ubuntu and NFS during boot

2017-03-17 Thread John Meissen
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 st

[PLUG] serial communication over ethernet

2017-03-17 Thread VY
Hello All: I am looking for a mechanism from Linux to configure a device that's a small ethernet server: https://www.lantronix.com/wp-content/uploads/pdf/XPort-AR_CR.pdf The initial steps involve configuring its BAUD rate, IP address etc.. On Windows, per their instructions, folks are asked t

Re: [PLUG] CentOS 6.x to CentOS 7.x

2017-03-17 Thread Keith Lofstrom
On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 06:09:21PM -0700, Thomas Groman wrote: > ... just start a new CentOS 7 box and migrate your stuff over. Agreed. Machines are cheap, especially used (motherboard from Free Geek?), and bringing up a new distro on the new machine while leaving the old one running is slightly