Date: Sun, 29 Dec 1996 15:19:20 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: shegonee@ix.netcom.com Cc: questions@freebsd.com Subject: Re: mountdtab Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961229151811.311H-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19961228174837.006824bc@popd.ix.netcom.com>
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On Sat, 28 Dec 1996 shegonee@ix.netcom.com wrote: > I noticed that during boot-up about 10 seconds after the mountd daemon > is started a message is output that says: > mountd[78]:Can't open /var/db/mountdtab Try creating this file: su touch /var/db/mountdtab > This appears to cause the mountd to be unable to mount exported file systems. > However, if this file is manually created(at least once), mountd works fine. > A file named /var/db/moundbtab is installed. Could there be an error in the > installation scripts? Is mountdtab supposed to be created but for some > reason and incorrect file called mountdbtab is created instead? What is > mountdbtab > used for anyway? man pages on mountd don't mention it - only mountdtab. mountdtab is like a log -- it's opened in append mode not open mode, so it has to exist. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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