From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 2 13:55:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA29956 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 2 Apr 1996 13:55:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (palmer.demon.co.uk [158.152.50.150]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA29937 for ; Tue, 2 Apr 1996 13:55:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (8.7.5/8.6.11) with SMTP id WAA01210 ; Tue, 2 Apr 1996 22:16:49 +0100 (BST) To: Mitch Shaw cc: "'FreeBSD Mailing List'" From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: Has Anybody done a freebsd cdrom install and installed for nfs client and server? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 01 Apr 1996 22:32:10 MDT." <01BB201C.325190C0@dal1-10.conline.com> Date: Tue, 02 Apr 1996 22:16:49 +0100 Message-ID: <1208.828479809@palmer.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Mitch Shaw wrote in message ID <01BB201C.325190C0@dal1-10.conline.com>: > Has Anybody done a freebsd cdrom install and installed for nfs > client and ser ver? I'm having a problem with the mountd daemon at > bootup it complains it cannot find the file "/var/db/mountdtab" Does > anybody know what this file is? Thanks :) Just do (as root): touch /var/db/mountdtab And the next time you boot the error will have magically vanished. mountd uses the file to record a list of which systems have nfs mounted which partitions. It's only a warning, as NFS & mountd are stateless, and don't particularly care who has mounted what in the past. The file is only really there for the admins to looks at. Gary