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authorWilliam Hubbs <w.d.hubbs@gmail.com>2017-11-14 14:11:57 -0600
committerWilliam Hubbs <w.d.hubbs@gmail.com>2017-11-14 15:41:03 -0600
commit318e87348168e37d78f433d3ff06288ad8ccf15c (patch)
tree5d9ae4c8ff5a47d672370f14e0f65dc72c918da2 /init.d/mtab.in
parent0d15898f58cc254d79777c791d4798a9b2542cf2 (diff)
strongly encourage Linux users to not make /etc/mtab a flat file
The OpenRC team does not currently know of any modern linux tools that require /etc/mtab to be a flat file, so this puts users on notice that the mtab service will be removed in the future.
Diffstat (limited to 'init.d/mtab.in')
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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/init.d/mtab.in b/init.d/mtab.in
index 9e0c1a6e..bac8230f 100644
--- a/init.d/mtab.in
+++ b/init.d/mtab.in
@@ -31,6 +31,10 @@ start()
einfo "Creating mtab symbolic link"
ln -snf /proc/self/mounts /etc/mtab
else
+ ewarn "The ${RC_SVCNAME} service will be removed in the future."
+ ewarn "Please change the mtab_is_file setting to no and run"
+ ewarn "# rc-service mtab restart"
+ ewarn "to create the mtab symbolic link."
[ -L /etc/mtab ] && ewarn "Removing /etc/mtab symbolic link"
rm -f /etc/mtab
einfo "Creating mtab file"