Removing stale /etc/rmtab entries???

[Jennifer Radon]

Jennifer Radon (jra...@cse.utoledo.edu) wrote:
: It just so happens that someone took a couple of (Solaris) systems down

I don't know if it matters, but they were SunOS 4.1.3, and they were rebuilt
(and renamed) as Solaris systems.

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Jen Radon

jra...@jupiter.cse.utoledo.edu Green-Jello and Peace
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[Jennifer Radon]

I've been trying to convince everyone in my office that they should unmount
remotely mounted filesystems before taking a system down. I mean, I think
it's a good idea. ($#@%-$%#^#@@...)

Ahem, anyways, this morning one of the worst offenders, well, OK, my boss
actually, came in to my office and requested that I do a `showmount -a` on
our RS6000. He then proceeded to explain to me why that command was useless
because it was listing mounted filesystems that haven't existed for a week
now (and we had rebooted).

It just so happens that someone took a couple of (Solaris) systems down without
unmounting their remotely mounted filesystems and renamed them and their
mounted external disks. Now those stale entries are still in /etc/rmtab.

I've been through smit, I've tried umount -f, I've looked through the man
pages and info and even TFM. Can someone please tell me how to clean out
those stale entries so I can apease the beast and convince him that
`showmount` and `umount` are not useless and evil commands? Please?

[Matt Accapadi]

Jennifer Radon <jra...@cse.utoledo.edu> wrote:
>It just so happens that someone took a couple of (Solaris) systems down without
>unmounting their remotely mounted filesystems and renamed them and their
>mounted external disks. Now those stale entries are still in /etc/rmtab.
>
>I've been through smit, I've tried umount -f, I've looked through the man
>pages and info and even TFM. Can someone please tell me how to clean out
>those stale entries so I can apease the beast and convince him that
>`showmount` and `umount` are not useless and evil commands? Please?

Either the client needs to unmount those filesystems using "umount"
or just remove the entries in /etc/rmtab with an editor. Then do a
"stopsrc -s mountd;startsrc -s mountd"

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