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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Does showmount ever forget?
Keywords: SunOS 4.0.3, showmount, shutdown, rwall
Message-ID: <3768@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 27 Jul 90 18:29:15 GMT
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Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>I added 'rm /etc/rmtab; touch /etc/rmtab' in /etc/rc.local, to ensure that the
>file is cleaned up on reboot.  What other files should be but aren't removed on
>restart?

Err, I don't think I said that file *should* be cleaned up on reboot. 
The reason I didn't say that is that the fact that a *server* reboots
doesn't directly change what file systems its *clients* have mounted. 
As such, "/etc/rmtab" is *not* one of the files that "should be but
[isn't] removed on restart"....

If you ream "/etc/rmtab" out on reboot, you might as well just try
symlinking it to "/dev/null" and be done with it; that'll keep the
server from ever sending out those broadcast messages, but some might
consider that a feature....