The boot process

[Cameron Hutchison]

Tim Penhey wrote:

>Can someone explain the actual boot process?

>In order to get cifs working properly I need to do:

>	$ echo 0 > /proc/fs/cifs/LinuxExtensionsEnabled

>prior to mounting any filesystem using cifs.

>I want this to happen automatically at boot time, but I'm not sure where to 
>put it.  Is there some script that has a boot time hook?  Or do I need to 
>write a script and put it in /etc/init.d ?

You can put this in /etc/sysctl.conf .

That file has some examples and a reference to the man page.