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From: jtb@cs.edinburgh.ac.uk (Jo Blishen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: setmntent problem
Keywords: setmntent, mnttab, AMD
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Date: 14 Mar 91 17:08:59 GMT
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Reply-To: jtb@cs.edinburgh.ac.uk (Jo Blishen)
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Edinburgh
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I am experiencing an intermittent problem when running AMD 5.2 on a
HP9000/375 under HP-UX version 7.0.  AMD reports the following errors:

setmntent ("/etc/mnttab","a") permission denied
couldn't find how to unmount /a/server/whichever/partition...

It seems that AMD is failing to add a record of a new NFS mount to the 
mount table.  AMD then fails to unmount this NFS-mounted partition at some
time later on and so I end up in an inconsistent state with a partition 
mounted and no record of it.  This leads to further errors when someone
tries to use that partition again as it is already NFS-mounted and I get
"device busy" messages.

Has anyone else seen this?  Has anyone else fixed this already?  Is there
any known problem with "setmntent" - it seems to me that it shouldn't
be giving "permission denied" messages to a program running as root
trying to append to /etc/mnttab?

Jo
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