<p>I would look at putting the config files in a subversion or git repo and pushing out with repo sync or rsync or using puppet or cfengine to handle this.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Aug 4, 2011 1:49 PM, "Wolf Halton" <<a href="mailto:wolf.halton@gmail.com">wolf.halton@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> Oh, ok.. Thanks,<br>> I have not used automount before. Would you feel safe mounting a critical<br>
> directory with it - not necessarily a remote /home directory?<br>> The nfs share I have up is holding the config files for a web app. This was<br>> our solution to having to update the config files on several servers in the<br>
> event that they needed to be edited. Without it, my test box has a copy of<br>> the source on it, but it is plain that this failsafe didn't work all that<br>> well.<br>> <br>> On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Lightner, Jeff <<a href="mailto:JLightner@water.com">JLightner@water.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> <br>>> Right – Avery’s email was saying you could use automount rather than<br>>> fstab. With automount the filesystem doesn’t mount at boot time but does<br>>> mount the first time something tries to use it which should be long after<br>
>> boot.****<br>>><br>>> ** **<br>>><br>>> Automount also means the filesystem gets unmounted automatically when not<br>>> in use and remounted when used later. One nice side to this is that if the<br>
>> exporting server goes down and it isn’t currently NFS mounted on your server<br>>> it doesn’t cause problems like hard NFS mounts do. ****<br>>><br>>> ** **<br>>> ------------------------------<br>
>><br>>> *From:* <a href="mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org">ale-bounces@ale.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org">ale-bounces@ale.org</a>] *On Behalf Of *Wolf<br>>> Halton<br>>> *Sent:* Thursday, August 04, 2011 12:23 PM<br>
>> *To:* Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts<br>>><br>>> *Subject:* Re: [ale] Fstab fails<br>>> ****<br>>><br>>> ** **<br>>><br>>> In my case, the system is coming up but just without the nfs directory<br>
>> mounted. ****<br>>><br>>> On Aug 4, 2011 9:03 AM, "Lightner, Jeff" <<a href="mailto:JLightner@water.com">JLightner@water.com</a>> wrote:<br>>> > Good idea.<br>>> ><br>
>> ><br>>> ><br>>> ><br>>> ><br>>> ><br>>> > ________________________________<br>>> > From: <a href="mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org">ale-bounces@ale.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org">ale-bounces@ale.org</a>] On Behalf Of<br>
>> Avery Ceo<br>>> > Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 7:42 PM<br>>> > To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts; <a href="mailto:transam@verysecurelinux.com">transam@verysecurelinux.com</a><br>>> > Subject: Re: [ale] Fstab fails<br>
>> ><br>>> ><br>>> > Have you considered the automounter? By waiting until the first attempt<br>>> to read a file before mounting the share, you might avoid your startup<br>>> issue, and you would get remounts after a lost connection for free if there<br>
>> is a network blip.<br>>> > On Aug 3, 2011 6:47 PM, "Bob Toxen" <<a href="mailto:transam@verysecurelinux.com">transam@verysecurelinux.com</a><mailto:<br>>> <a href="mailto:transam@verysecurelinux.com">transam@verysecurelinux.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
>> >> This still will hang in startup (though you'll probably be in<br>>> >> multiuser).<br>>> >><br>>> >> Specify timeouts in case NFS cannot start, e.g., the server is down.<br>
>> >><br>>> >> Bob Toxen<br>>> >><br>>> >> On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 04:21:47PM -0400, Andrew Wade wrote:<br>>> >>> With NFS, I set fstab<br>>> >>><br>
>> >>> server:/ifs/fs02 /ifs/fs02 nfs bg,noauto,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 0 0<br>>> >>><br>>> >>> *note the noauto, this tells it to not automount. If it tries to<br>>> automount<br>
>> >>> and is unable, your server will stall in startup. So you put this entry<br>>> in<br>>> >>> /etc/rc.local:<br>>> >>><br>>> >>> mount /ifs/fs02<br>>> >>><br>
>> >>> Also check to make sure that nfs and portmap services are started upon<br>>> boot<br>>> >>> time.<br>>> >>><br>>> >>> That way, the server starts up and then mounts the nfs under rc.local<br>
>> (where<br>>> >>> if the nfs share hangs, it would not affect the normal system startup).<br>>> >>><br>>> >>><br>>> >>><br>>> >>> Andrew<br>
>> >>> RHCE<br>>> >>><br>>> >>> On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 5:50 PM, planas <<a href="mailto:jslozier@gmail.com">jslozier@gmail.com</a><mailto:<br>>> <a href="mailto:jslozier@gmail.com">jslozier@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
>> >>><br>>> >>> > **<br>>> >>> > Wolf<br>>> >>> ><br>>> >>> > Could configuration be faulty, I asked about setting an internal ntfs<br>
>> drive<br>>> >>> > awhile ago and I got this link from Ubuntu:<br>>> >>> ><br>>> >>> > <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fstab">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fstab</a><br>
>> >>> ><br>>> >>> > It has links to more network configuration.<br>>> >>> ><br>>> >>> ><br>>> >>> > On Tue, 2011-08-02 at 14:27 -0400, Wolf Halton wrote:<br>
>> >>> ><br>>> >>> > Can you think of any reason why fstab would not be read on reboot.<br>>> Ubuntu<br>>> >>> > lucid have an nfs share that was not mounted automagically when I<br>
>> rebooted<br>>> >>> > the client machine. Broke a bunch of stuff.<br>>> >>> > Wolf<br>>> >>> > PS mount -a picked up and mounted the nfs directory.<br>>> >>> ><br>
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