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- From: poe@daimi.aau.dk (Peter Orbaek)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: shutdown problem
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.083042.7485@daimi.aau.dk>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 08:30:42 GMT
- References: <1992Jul22.120039.28230@athena.mit.edu>
- Sender: poe@daimi.aau.dk (Peter Orbaek)
- Organization: DAIMI: Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark
- Lines: 23
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- jstump@vnet.ibm.com (John Stump) writes:
-
- >I tried using the shutdown utility from the 0.96c root disk under 0.96cpl2
- >and it gave me messages "cannot umount /dev//dev/hda3" and "cannot
- >umount /dev//dev/hda2" or something to that effect. These are indeed
- >mounted as / and /usr.
-
- Shutdown was written with the old mount program in mind, and it didn't
- prepend /dev to the devices in /etc/mtab.
-
- >It seems shutdown is prepending /dev/ when it is already there. Are there
- >newer binaries for this? And where is the source? I can't seem to locate
- >it at the usual sites in the usual places.
-
- It's to be found in the admutil-1.1 package, and can at least be ftp'ed from
-
- ftp.daimi.aau.dk:/pub/Linux-source
-
- - Peter.
-
- --
- Peter Orbaek <poe@daimi.aau.dk>
- Hasle Ringvej 122, DK-8200 Aarhus N, DENMARK
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