Re: mounting /var/spool/mail
In message <[🔎] XFMail.971025102912.Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk> you wrote:
>
>Tine to shine the bright lights in the eyes and start asking nasty
>questions to your system:
>
>For instance, after you have done "mount 242.21.5.133:/ /mntpnt",
>what do you get from "ls /mntpnt"? "ls /mntpnt/var"? "ls /mntpnt/var/spool"?
There are files in /mntpnt/var/spool/cron but not in /mnt/var/spool/mail.
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>The same questions if you DON'T mount 242.21.5.133:/ ? Do you by any chance
>have a directory /mntpnt/var/spool/mail on the local machine which happens
>to be empty? Check (using the unadorned command "mount") that you DON'T
>have the remote root directory mounted before doing this test.
I don't have /mntpnt/var/spool/mail localy.
>
>I notice that the "mount" command you cite does not include any options.
>Normally, at the very least you would say
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> mount -t nfs 242.21.5.133:/ /mntpnt
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>unless you have an entry for /mntpnt in /etc/fstab which says that the
>default filesystem type for mounting to /mntpnt is "nfs".
I've never been forced to use -t for an nfs mount but it's worth a shot.
>
>The behaviour you describe is consistent with (a) failure to mount
>242.21.5.133:/ to /mntpnt with the "mount 242.21.5.133:/ /mntpnt" command,
>together with (b) having a local directory /mntpnt/var/spool/mail which is
>empty.
>
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