On 10 Oct 2001 08:36:34 -0700
"Christopher Keller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> [root@thisbox tmp]#  /usr/sbin/tmpwatch 240 /tmp
> error: failed to open /etc/mtab for reading
> 
> It's a basic seawolf install which has been massaged to a newer kernel
> and ext3. I'm guessing tmpwatch isn't playing nicely with something
> other than ext2 filesystems?

tmpwatch shouldn't care about the filesystem. Does "strace -e open tmpwatch"
tell you anything more interesting? I assume "cat /etc/mtab" behaves as
expected?

Erik

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