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Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 22:16:24 -0700
From: Deborah Gronke Bennett <deborah@microunity.com>
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Subject: misc/1297: /var/db/mountdtab misnamed after install
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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: