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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Has Anybody done a freebsd cdrom install and installed for nfs client and server?
To: gpalmer@FreeBSD.org (Gary Palmer)
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 17:59:36 -0700 (MST)
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In-Reply-To: <1208.828479809@palmer.demon.co.uk> from "Gary Palmer" at Apr 2, 96 10:16:49 pm
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> > 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.

This should go into the rc file before mountd is started.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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