[TriLUG] What does action mean in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit?

[Tanner Lovelace]

On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 13:06, Tom Bryan wrote:
> The following line in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit seems to be the one that's failing
> action $"Mounting local filesystems: " mount -a -t nonfs,smbfs,ncpfs -O 
> no_netdev
> 
> I don't know what "action" is.  Once the system finishes booting, I see that 
> the /usr/share partition has been mounted

Take a look at the file /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions.  That's
where all the helper functions are usually located.  In my
distribution (Mandrake 8.1), here is how action is defined:

# Run some action. Log its output.
action() {
  gprintf_msg_rest "$@"
  echo -n "$GPRINTF_MSG "

  # libsafe support
  if [ -r /etc/sysconfig/system ] && grep -q '^LIBSAFE=yes$' \
       /etc/sysconfig/system && [ -r /lib/libsafe.so.2 ]; then
    LD_PRELOAD=/lib/libsafe.so.2
    export LD_PRELOAD
  fi

  initlog $INITLOG_ARGS -c "$GPRINTF_REST" && success "$GPRINTF_MSG" ||\
     failure "$GPRINTF_MSG"
  rc=$?
  echo
  unset LD_PRELOAD
  return $rc
}

Note that I've continued long lines using "\"...

Basically, it prints a message, sets up a few things (i.e.
if you're using libsafe), sets up logging, runs the command,
resets everything and then returns.

One thing you might want to make sure is that /usr/share
actually exists in the root directory (and is empty).  That
could be giving an error... As far as action detecting a 
bogus failure, I don't think so.  I'd look elsewhere for the
problem...

Tanner
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