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-rw-r--r--FEATURE-REMOVAL-SCHEDULE11
-rw-r--r--init.d/mtab.in10
2 files changed, 18 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/FEATURE-REMOVAL-SCHEDULE b/FEATURE-REMOVAL-SCHEDULE
index 682bed88..2c05a3ee 100644
--- a/FEATURE-REMOVAL-SCHEDULE
+++ b/FEATURE-REMOVAL-SCHEDULE
@@ -59,3 +59,14 @@ Why: Depprecated in favor of executable scripts in @SYSCONFDIR@/local.d
Who:
---------------------------
+
+What: the mtab service script
+
+When: 1.0
+
+Why: /etc/mtab should be a symbolic link to /proc/self/mounts on modern
+ Linux systems
+
+Who:
+
+---------------------------
diff --git a/init.d/mtab.in b/init.d/mtab.in
index 8e5bc2fb..0cd73696 100644
--- a/init.d/mtab.in
+++ b/init.d/mtab.in
@@ -12,12 +12,16 @@ depend()
start()
{
- if [ -L /etc/mtab ]
- then
- einfo "Skipping mtab update (mtab is a symbolic link)"
+ if [ -L /etc/mtab ]; then
return 0
fi
+ ewarn "Please run the following command as root on your system."
+ ewarn
+ ewarn "ln -snf /proc/self/mounts /etc/mtab"
+ ewarn
+ ewarn "The support for updating /etc/mtab as a file is"
+ ewarn "deprecated and will be removed in the future."
ebegin "Updating /etc/mtab"
if ! echo 2>/dev/null >/etc/mtab; then
ewend 1 "/etc/mtab is not updateable"