PARTIAL SUMMARY - What is file /dev/nrst9 ?

From: Liz Marlow (e.s.marlow@uces.bangor.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Nov 12 1997 - 11:10:48 CST


Hi All

Thanks for all the replies I received - I haven't recieved my copy of the question yet!

Thanks in the order they arrived go to:-
        Tim Evans <tkevans@eplrx7.es.dupont.com>
        "Borba, Wilter" <WBorba@BSE.COM.uy>
        Casper Dik <casper@holland.Sun.COM>
        System Administrator <sys-admin@gdc.ca>
        dirk@abcomp.be (Dirk Jansen)
        "martha.crocker" <martha.crocker@sat.vlsi.com>
        Matthew Stier <Matthew.Stier@tddny.fujitsu.com>`
        Art Schoenstadt <0085P@VM1.CC.NPS.NAVY.MIL>
        bill@cogsci.ed.ac.uk
        Rich Kulawiec <rsk@itw.com>
        hargrme@wisdom.maf.nasa.gov
        hoffman@cs.pitt.edu
        Gerald Combs - Unicom Communications <gerald@unicom.net>
        "Michael R. Zika" <zika@glacier.llnl.gov>

The first problem was relativly simple, I'll quote Tim as he was the first to reply:-

Someone made a typo in doing a backup and directed it to "/dev/nrst9:-"
instead of "/dev/nrst9". The backup was directed to this file,
rather than to the tape drive represented by the correct devname.

You can remove it. Be careful with future backups. If you're using
a backup script, check it to make sure the typo isn't in the script.

The second problem I've had a couple of suggestions for

Bob Hoffnam said:-
/etc/mnttab contains the status of every mounted device. It sounds like the
automounter expected to find a line with dev=28c0066 in that file and did not.

Art Schoenstadt said:-
      The second message is one we see a lot. My lead sysadmin says
that he contacted Sun Solve, and this is a known bug. (And apparently
not a high priority one.) We're still trying to understand it!

I'll send another summary when I've figurred it out.

Many thanks to all
Liz



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