Network availability systemd dependency failure at boot

[Ed Greshko]

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On 07/06/14 07:32, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Sat, 05 Jul 2014 19:30:06 -0400
> Sam Varshavchik <mrsam at courier-mta.com> wrote:
>
>> R. G. Newbury writes:
>>
>>>>
>>>> That at least works up to the day systemd decides
>>>> no one needs rc.local and they drop support for
>>>> it (a day that is sure to come :-).
>>>
>>> Direct support for rc.local has already been "deprecated".
>>> Somewhere I read something from Lennart and it was clear that he
>>> has an almost religious hatred for doing things 'the old way', so
>>> much so that rc.local is not 'desired'.
>>
>> I got the same impression. If it worked, reliably, for decades, it's
>> not desired any more.
>
> I'd love a cite if you can find one... I don't know of any reason it
> would ever be removed. It doesn't run or do anything if you don't have
> an rc.local file.
>

Sometimes I think some folks may not be reading the documentation on this.  rc.local also needs to be executable for it to work.

I'm forced to use this currently due to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1055139 to mount some NFS filesystems.  Works fine.


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