Fellow techies,
I just finished replacing one of my servers with newer hardware, and I've run into a bizarre issue. Specifically, FreeBSD (amd64 port, release 8.3) seems to be starting up faster than the NICs can come online.
This is posing a nasty problem, particularly when the two entries I've got in /etc/fstab to mount a pair of Windows server-based shares come up. The result of said problem seems to be the machine thinks something is broken, and says it can't locate the OS shell file. Commenting out the two SMB-based shares in fstab eliminates the startup problem, but loses me said shares outside of manually mapping them from the console.
Question: Is there a way to put a temporary 'hold' or timed pause in the startup process, preferably after the network ports are enabled and before the portion of fstab containing the SMB shares is executed? I'd like to give the net ports about ten seconds to settle.
Alternatively: Is there a way to let the system start all the way up, EXCEPT for the two SMB shares, and then mount them after a few seconds pause?
Or -- Is there a Better Way I've not mentioned above?
Thanks much.
I just finished replacing one of my servers with newer hardware, and I've run into a bizarre issue. Specifically, FreeBSD (amd64 port, release 8.3) seems to be starting up faster than the NICs can come online.
This is posing a nasty problem, particularly when the two entries I've got in /etc/fstab to mount a pair of Windows server-based shares come up. The result of said problem seems to be the machine thinks something is broken, and says it can't locate the OS shell file. Commenting out the two SMB-based shares in fstab eliminates the startup problem, but loses me said shares outside of manually mapping them from the console.
Question: Is there a way to put a temporary 'hold' or timed pause in the startup process, preferably after the network ports are enabled and before the portion of fstab containing the SMB shares is executed? I'd like to give the net ports about ten seconds to settle.
Alternatively: Is there a way to let the system start all the way up, EXCEPT for the two SMB shares, and then mount them after a few seconds pause?
Or -- Is there a Better Way I've not mentioned above?
Thanks much.