From: Ed Carp (erc@apple.com)
Date: 08/01/93 

From: erc@apple.com (Ed Carp)
Subject: Re: mount-fstab-mtab-ps problems with pl11 (second plea!)
Date: Sun, 1 Aug 1993 06:35:24 GMT

John Ackermann x 2966 (jra@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM) wrote:

: I think the problem is related to the fact that at boot time mount creates
: a 0 byte etc/mtab on boot -- if I manually create mtab, things will work ok
: until the next reboot. Permissions and ownerships of the relevant files
: seem ok (everything owned by root, and root has write privs, with universal
: read privs on fstab and mtab). There's no etc/mtab~ lock file lurking,
: so that's not the problem.

1. Put this in /etc/fstab:

/proc /proc proc defaults

2. Put this in /etc/rc.local BEFORE "mount -a":

> /etc/mtab

Should work. 

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Ed Carp, N7EKG                  erc@apple.com                   510/659-9560

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