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authorWilliam Hubbs <w.d.hubbs@gmail.com>2014-08-14 13:50:48 -0500
committerWilliam Hubbs <w.d.hubbs@gmail.com>2014-08-14 13:50:48 -0500
commit1b26d547a50e2554483bdbfd288fae75fd76bfa0 (patch)
treef73b26220984b7e9f15e680b46868b7cfa1009ef /init.d/mtab.in
parentc8018d04a7b238b57a3d74a68e2af02af395f510 (diff)
downloadopenrc-1b26d547a50e2554483bdbfd288fae75fd76bfa0.tar.xz
Deprecate the mtab service script
The mtab service script is no longer needed on modern Linux systems, so we can remove it in 1.0. However, we need to set a deprecation notice first.
Diffstat (limited to 'init.d/mtab.in')
-rw-r--r--init.d/mtab.in10
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/init.d/mtab.in b/init.d/mtab.in
index 8e5bc2fb..0cd73696 100644
--- a/init.d/mtab.in
+++ b/init.d/mtab.in
@@ -12,12 +12,16 @@ depend()
start()
{
- if [ -L /etc/mtab ]
- then
- einfo "Skipping mtab update (mtab is a symbolic link)"
+ if [ -L /etc/mtab ]; then
return 0
fi
+ ewarn "Please run the following command as root on your system."
+ ewarn
+ ewarn "ln -snf /proc/self/mounts /etc/mtab"
+ ewarn
+ ewarn "The support for updating /etc/mtab as a file is"
+ ewarn "deprecated and will be removed in the future."
ebegin "Updating /etc/mtab"
if ! echo 2>/dev/null >/etc/mtab; then
ewend 1 "/etc/mtab is not updateable"