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| author | William Hubbs <w.d.hubbs@gmail.com> | 2015-10-07 11:35:31 -0500 |
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| committer | William Hubbs <w.d.hubbs@gmail.com> | 2015-10-07 11:35:31 -0500 |
| commit | 6fa0d6318bcd5c98548cff2ff840bca116892ca5 (patch) | |
| tree | 8fcf5b06d2faa60b5b1ac1387c3af6e169cec71e /init.d/mtab.in | |
| parent | 80d3928b0d13f09a9c1e82bd27c9fff943d84d43 (diff) | |
mtab: fix update logic
This advises users to remove mtab from their runlevels if /etc/mtab is a
symlink, and it creates the symlink if /etc/mtab does not exist on a
system.
X-Gentoo-Bug: 560060
X-Gentoo-Bug-URL: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=560060
Diffstat (limited to 'init.d/mtab.in')
| -rw-r--r-- | init.d/mtab.in | 15 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/init.d/mtab.in b/init.d/mtab.in index 51575b43..1442ffd6 100644 --- a/init.d/mtab.in +++ b/init.d/mtab.in @@ -12,21 +12,18 @@ depend() start() { - [ -L /etc/mtab ] && return 0 local rc=0 ebegin "Updating /etc/mtab" - if ! checkpath -W /etc; then + if [ -L /etc/mtab ] ; then + ewarn "/etc/mtab is a symlink, not updating." + ewarn "FYI - You can safely remove mtab from your runlevels." + elif ! checkpath -W /etc; then rc=1 elif [ ! -e /etc/mtab ]; then + einfo "Creating mtab symlink" ln -snf /proc/self/mounts /etc/mtab else - ewarn "The support for updating /etc/mtab as a file is" - ewarn "deprecated and will be removed in the future." - ewarn "Please run the following command as root on your system." - ewarn - ewarn "ln -snf /proc/self/mounts /etc/mtab" - ewarn - + einfo "Updating mtab file" # With / as tmpfs we cannot umount -at tmpfs in localmount as that # makes / readonly and dismounts all tmpfs even if in use which is # not good. Luckily, umount uses /etc/mtab instead of /proc/mounts |