[ILUG] Simple script, please

[Pádraig Brady]

paul at clubi.ie wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Feb 2008, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> 
>> I want to mount alfred:/common on my laptop
>> if it can see my desktop "alfred".
>> If I just add the entry to /etc/fstab
>> it hangs for an inordinate time if it cannot see alfred .
>>
>> Could you please write me a script to put in rc.local ?
> 
> man mount/bg

That's a little terse/inaccurate.
What I think you meant is:

man nfs
/bg

Note that option will still involve a wait
for the first timeout. There are other parameters
in that man page relating to timeouts which may be useful.