Bill & Louise Bond wrote:
Migrated from Slackware to RH5.  When I invoke a ppp link with my isp,
tail -f /blah indicates "proc filesytem not mounted."  Here is the
kicker:
proc is compiled in my kernel, it's in my directory tree, and I can
cat /proc/blah successfully.  However, mount doesn't show it and when
I try to initialize from fstab I rcv "none busy or /proc already
mounted."
Aside from this, the link, ip masq, fw, etc. is fine.  I've looked in
/etc/rc.d/blah
hoping to find a commented-out script command but unsure given that
/proc is mount (so it appears).  Where, how, and why?

Domo (no Ja'pun intended)!

Bill Bond

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There are 2 lines in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit in the RedHat installation:

    ... (initial fsck of root filesystem in read-only mode)
    ...
    mount -t proc /proc /proc
    ...
    ...(remount root read-write)
    ...
    # Clear mtab (mount table)
    >/etc/mtab
    ...
    # Enter root and /proc into mtab.
    mount -f /
    mount -f /proc

The -f in the second mount means "fake" a mount,
so an already mounted drive get's added to mtab.
Sounds like your "fake" mount is missing.

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