[H-GEN] NFS timeout

[David Jericho]

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On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 11:17:56AM +1200, Jay wrote:
> Is there a smarter way to find out if a network which provides NFS shares is 
> reachable, other than to way for the NFS timeout.

Ping? It all involves timeouts anyway.

> Is it doable within reason to put this task into a script run during boot-up?

#!/bin/sh

ping -c 1 host.ip.addr.ess
RETVAL=$?

if [ ${RETVAL} -eq 0]; then
	mount nfs:/share /mount/point
else
	echo "Can't mount nfs:/share"
fi

-- 
David Jericho
Systems Administrator, Plugged In Software

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