Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 22:16:24 -0700 From: Deborah Gronke Bennett <deborah@microunity.com> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: misc/1297: /var/db/mountdtab misnamed after install Message-ID: <199606060516.WAA03944@traken.microunity.com> Resent-Message-ID: <199606060520.WAA03956@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 1297
>Category: misc
>Synopsis: /var/db/mountdtab misnamed after install
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Wed Jun 5 22:20:03 PDT 1996
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Deborah Gronke Bennett
>Organization:
MicroUnity Systems Engineering, Inc.
>Release: FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386
>Environment:
Various. I noticed the problem on every PC I installed
(some P5-90 with IDE disks, some P5-133 with
SCSI).
>Description:
The file /var/db/mountdtab is missing after installing
FreeBSD 2.1 from the release CD-ROM.
Suspiciously, /var/db contains a file called mountdbtab,
which doesn't seem to be used for anything.
I suspect a typo in an install script somewhere.
>How-To-Repeat:
The usual way I notice this is to try to enable nfs_server
on the machine, which gives this error:
Error: cannot open /var/db/mountdtab
>Fix:
I wrote a shell script containing these lines which I run
after installing machines:
### Work around an installation bug
##
PATHNAME="/var/db"
echo "fixing "${PATHNAME}"/mountdtab"
cd ${PATHNAME}
mv mountdbtab mountdtab
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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