Sunday, May 17, 2009, 10:33 AM - Linux, Networking
I set up autofs to automount a Windows share, but it wouldn't work after a reboot because autofs was not running on startup! I couldn't understand why because I saw it linked to by a file in rc2.d/. I even tried calling it from /etc/rc.local but rc.local wasn't getting run on startup either!
Finally, I discovered that my Eee PC runs something called fastinit on startup, not regular init (how do you think it boots so fast?). Fastinit doesn't pay attention to what's in the rc?.d dirs. To get autofs to run on startup the solution is to add autofs to the /ets/fastservices file. I wish I had understood that sooner.
