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Ajedi32
Asked: 2013-07-24 05:27:55 +0800 CST

"PATH should only include /usr/* if it runs after the mountnfs.sh script"

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I'm trying to create an init script for a web application I want to run on system start up. Looking through the skeleton script provided by my OS (/etc/init.d/skeleton), I saw this:

# PATH should only include /usr/* if it runs after the mountnfs.sh script
PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin

What does this mean? If I want /usr/bin included in the path, do I have to do something to ensure that mountnfs.sh gets run first?

And where is mountnfs.sh located? I don't see it in my init.d directory.

init.d

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  1. Best Answer

    You can locate which package contains a file using:

    # apt-file search /etc/init.d/mountnfs.sh
initscripts: /etc/init.d/mountnfs.sh

    Check if it is installed:

    # dpkg -L initscripts | grep /mountnfs.sh
/etc/init.d/mountnfs.sh

    The LSB header of that file is informative:

    ### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          mountnfs
# Required-Start:    $local_fs
# Required-Stop:
# Should-Start:      $network $portmap nfs-common  udev-mtab
# Default-Start:     S
# Default-Stop:
# Short-Description: Wait for network file systems to be mounted
# Description:       Network file systems are mounted by
#                    /etc/network/if-up.d/mountnfs in the background
#                    when interfaces are brought up; this script waits
#                    for them to be mounted before carrying on.
### END INIT INFO

    So if you don't use any NFS mount point, you can safely ignore that comment

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