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Date: Sat, 28 Dec 1996 09:48:37 -0800
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Subject: mountdtab
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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
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.
Kirk :)