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  1. Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!purdue!mentor.cc.purdue.edu!sage.cc.purdue.edu!davisre
  3. From: davisre@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Robert Davis)
  4. Subject: /etc/mtab permissions
  5. Message-ID: <C1A5Ep.6nI@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
  6. Sender: news@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (USENET News)
  7. Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
  8. Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 00:01:36 GMT
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  12.     This may have been mentioned before (I recently upgraded to
  13. 3.0), but is there a workaround or fix for this:  ejecting a mounted
  14. floppy changes the permissions of /etc/mtab so that you can't do a df.
  15.  
  16. % df
  17. Filesystem            kbytes    used   avail capacity  Mounted on
  18. df: /etc/mtab: Permission denied
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  21. Rob
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  23. | Robert Davis                                    davis@sonata.cc.purdue.edu
  24. | "Look up, Hannah.  Look up."                            NeXT Mail accepted
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