Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watcgl!idallen From: "Ian! D. Allen [CGL]" Subject: Ultrix 3.1 NFS mounting strangeness Message-ID: <1990Jul15.225716.3831@watcgl.waterloo.edu> Sender: idallen@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Ian! D. Allen [CGL]) Organization: Computer Graphics Laboratory, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Date: Sun, 15 Jul 90 22:57:16 GMT Lines: 13 # mount host:/ /tmp/xx/ # mount host:/usr /tmp/xx/usr nfs_mount: cannot mount host:/usr on /tmp/xx/usr: No such file or directory # ls -l /tmp/xx >/dev/null # mount host:/usr /tmp/xx/usr The first mount of /usr fails, the one done after the ls works. (The ls will show that /tmp/xx/usr is really there, and is a directory.) This strangeness doesn't happen if you don't have the trailing slash on the /tmp/xx/ when you mount the root. -- -IAN! (Ian! D. Allen) idallen@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca idallen@watcgl.waterloo.edu [129.97.128.64] Computer Graphics Lab/University of Waterloo/Ontario/Canada