From: Vince Skahan (vince@victrola.sea.wa.us)
Date: 03/30/93 

From: vince@victrola.sea.wa.us (Vince Skahan)
Subject: Re: 0.99p7A: doexpire calling df says cannot read mounted fs ?
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1993 03:52:01 GMT

tthemann@isys-hh.hanse.de (Tim Themann) writes:
>> /usr/local/lib/news/bin/expire/doexpire &
>>as user news gave me:

>>df: cannot read mounted filesystems: permission denied

did you mount a DOS floppy then unmount it as root.
on my system, that makes /etc/mtab not world-readable.

make it mode 644 and you'll be ok. 

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