From: Dave Houghton (davehoughton@mulinux.free-online.co.uk)
Date: Mon Dec 27 1999 - 02:11:17 CET
On 26 Dec 1999, Michele Andreoli <m.andreoli@tin.it> wrote:
>
>On Sat, Dec 25, 1999 at 10:30:13PM +0000, Clive Wright nicely wrote:
>> Running 7r5 with all addons on /dev/hda1 umsdos
>> file /etc/mtab grows an extra line following each shutdown (using
>> shutdown -h)
>
>Uhm! An old question for me. UMSDOS and RAM system acts differently.
>I will take a look. Thanks.
>
>How you discovered the bug?!
in /etc/rc.4 after you set the PATH but immediately before you mount the "real" root file system add the following line:-
rm -f /etc/mtab 2>/dev/null
That's it, don't know why we didn't spot that one before !
While we are talking about growing junk, after you remove /etc/mtab in rc.4 how about doing a file search of /tmp for files more than say three days old and remove them because on a cloned system /tmp rapidly becomes full of rubbish.. old chimera pages, temp modules,and loads of other odd bits+pc's. Nice thought but find=mufind=sed/tr script so we would have to add creation date parsing to find...Oh well :^(
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Dave g0mxw
muLinux U.K. mirror
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