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Re: /etc/rmtab: what is it?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul A Sand)
Fri Nov 29 04:50:56 1996

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Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 04:50:00 -0500 (EST)
In-Reply-To: <329E3E68.3200F959@iceonline.com> from "Borg" at Nov 28, 96 05:37:44 pm
From: Paul A Sand <pas@unh.edu>
Reply-To: pas@unh.edu
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> So, what is [/etc/rmtab]?

On at least some Unix systems it's a table of local file systems
mounted by remote NFS clients. (rmtab == remote mount table) We
don't do NFS off our Linux boxes, so I haven't seen it here,
but I'd wager that's what it's for.


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