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Date:      Sat, 5 Oct 2002 09:14:37 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Oliver Fromme <olli@secnetix.de>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: floppy disk
Message-ID:  <200210050714.g957EbuG091849@lurza.secnetix.de>
In-Reply-To: <b5elb5a9ah.lb5@localhost.localdomain>

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Gary W. Swearingen <swear@attbi.com> wrote:
 > [huge quote]
 >> >> > grep: /etc/vfstab: No such file or directory
 > ...
 > 
 > Anyway, I just wanted to guess that "vfstab" means "Virtual FileSystem
 > TABle", which I think is an (optional?) feature of FreeBSD 5.0 (AKA

No.  /etc/vfstab is the filesystem table on several SysV-
derived UNIX systems, such as Solaris.  It does not exist
on FreeBSD.

Therefore it seems that the mount command on that machine
has been replaced by a script designed to run on a system
like Solaris.  Maybe some funny root-kit.

Not that I want to cause any concern ...  :-)

My advice would be to re-install the mount command.  Better
yet, find out whether the machine was compromised, and if
so, re-install the complete system.

Regards
   Oliver

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