Re: Configuring a bridged interface

[Dan Harnett <danh@wzrd.com>]

On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 07:37:19PM +0100, Paul de Weerd wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 11:18:22AM -0700, Chris Kuethe wrote:
> | If you really wanted to you could put "!/usr/local/bin/mpg123 /root/silly.mp3"
> | into your interface configuration to make it play an mp3 when the interface
> | comes up.
> 
> Not really. /usr is mounted *after* /etc/rc runs /etc/netstart.

[...snip!...]

> So you can't run anything from /usr in your hostname.if files unless
> /usr is on the same partition as / (which nobody does, right ? ;)

You missed the other mount commands that occur earlier in /etc/rc.  As
long as what you're trying to execute doesn't reside on a NFS
filesystem, it should be available when /etc/netstart is run.