From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 29 15:19:31 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id PAA16904 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 29 Dec 1996 15:19:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts15-line8.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.191]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id PAA16897 for ; Sun, 29 Dec 1996 15:19:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.2/8.6.12) with SMTP id PAA00405; Sun, 29 Dec 1996 15:19:21 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 29 Dec 1996 15:19:20 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: shegonee@ix.netcom.com cc: questions@freebsd.com Subject: Re: mountdtab In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19961228174837.006824bc@popd.ix.netcom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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