From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 6 15:00:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA05449 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 6 Nov 1996 15:00:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from jack.colorado.edu (jack.Colorado.EDU [128.138.149.29]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA05441 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 1996 15:00:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from jack (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jack.colorado.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3/CNS-4.0p) with SMTP id QAA11393; Wed, 6 Nov 1996 16:00:31 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <3281188F.600A@Colorado.EDU> Date: Wed, 06 Nov 1996 16:00:31 -0700 From: "Mark O'Lear" Organization: University of Colorado X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; SunOS 5.4 sun4m) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Douglas C. Garrick" CC: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: mountdbtab References: <327FEAEB.41C67EA6@panther.upl.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Douglas C. Garrick wrote: > > I am having a problem with the mountd server on a FreeBSD machine. > I get assorted mountd err. messages but the most consistent of these is > a "can't open /var/db/mountdbtab message". I have tried various > combintations of ownerships of this and /etc/exports but I can't resolve > this. > > Any suggestions? > > Thanks > dgarrick@panther.upl.com You might want to look through the archives as this was discussed before. I believe that it had something to do with the fact that the file should be called mountdtab instead of mountdbtab (something messed up with the install). Mine works fine as mountdtab: -rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 36 Nov 6 15:58 /var/db/mountdtab -- Mark O'Lear \ e-mail: Mark.Olear@Colorado.EDU University of Colorado \ phone: (303) 492-3798 Telecomm. Svcs. (CB 313) \ fax: (303) 492-5105 Boulder, CO 80309 \