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[Jonathan Evraire <evraire AT tuwg.com>]

I was affected, but I don't know how.

On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, nealbirch wrote:

> nealbirch wrote:
> > Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> >> The problem is caused by /etc/mtab being a symlink to /proc/mounts,
> >> making it a regular file solves this.
>  >
>
> Okay, further discussion on irc reveals that Arwed's mtab was a symlink
>   which was created ghod knows when.
>
> It would be a good idea if anyone else has the same problem, that is:
>
> /etc/mtab is setup as a symlink to /proc/mounts, when it should be a
> regular file created by mount,
>
> If anyone else finds that they have a symlink instead of a regular file,
> and can shed some light on how it came to be that way, I can determine
> if we need to take some action with the init.d spell that sets up
> mount.sh. It may be a fluke on one machine or it may be affecting more
> folks.
>
>
> Neal
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