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Re: Problems with vold and CDs on Public Athena Suns

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Cavin)
Thu Apr 19 17:40:02 2001

From: Tom Cavin <tec@ai.mit.edu>
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Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 17:39:46 -0400 (EDT)
To: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@mit.edu>
Cc: Tom Cavin <tec@ai.mit.edu>, bugs@mit.edu
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Hi Garry,

Thanks!  That seems to have done the trick.

Do you have any idea how long I should hold onto this binary before it
is fixed in an Athena update?

   --Tom

Garry Zacheiss writes:
 > 	Hi Tom,
 > 
 > 	Sorry about this; it turns out that even after fixing
 > /etc/rmmount.conf, there's a bug in /usr/sbin/rmmount that makes
 > automounting of cds not work.  Sun doesn't have a patch for this one
 > yet, but using the pre-patch rmmount binary seems to work.
 > 
 > 	Can you try installing /mit/zacheiss/rmmount as
 > /usr/sbin/rmmount on the machine where you're having problems and
 > confirm it works?
 > 
 > Garry

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Tom Cavin                                Phone:  (617) 258 - 7806
WCCF Computer Operations Manager         Email:  tec@ai.mit.edu

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