In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > >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 > > mount -t nfs 242.21.5.133:/ /mntpnt > >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. > -- Jason Killen Question Stupidity I'm here for my American dream and I'm not leaving until I get every bit!!!! Monolith : That funny looking guy talking to himself in the back of class PGP fingerprint = 64 71 48 14 31 AE C6 70 E4 4F 64 EB 3B AA 00 6B [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cs.wcu.edu/~jkillen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .