From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 4 17:47:47 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA22629 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 4 May 1996 17:47:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vent.pipex.net (root@vent.pipex.net [158.43.128.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA22619 for ; Sat, 4 May 1996 17:47:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dial.pipex.com by vent.pipex.net (8.6.12/PIPEX simple 1.20) id BAA05792; Sun, 5 May 1996 01:47:33 +0100 Received: (from jraynard@localhost) by dial.pipex.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id AAA06242; Sun, 5 May 1996 00:19:02 GMT Date: Sun, 5 May 1996 00:19:02 GMT From: James Raynard Message-Id: <199605050019.AAA06242@dial.pipex.com> To: eeg@telecom.at CC: "angelo"@fau.campus.mci.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <199605041516.RAA48198@pina1> (eeg@telecom.at) Subject: Re: Can't open /var/db/moundtab Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Franz Hollerer" writes: > > Angel G. Ortiz wrote: > > > > Each time I reboot my system I get the following message: > > > > "mountd[83]: Can't open /var/db/mountdtab." > > > > Both the path and file exist. Are you sure? The 2.1 install names it as /var/db/mountdbtab (presumably a typo somewhere). > chmod a+rw /var/db/moundtab This file is accessed by a daemon, so making it world writeable might be a security hole. The permissions should be -rw-rw-r-- 1 nobody wheel 0 Nov 18 21:07 /var/db/mountdbtab Going back to the original problem, the simplest solution is # ln -s /var/db/mountdbtab /var/db/mountdtab -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland