In Solaris 8 the mnttab is no longer writeable like in 7 and below.  NBU
wants to change the access time for purposes of incremental backups, but
can't.  And you can't make mnttab writeable even if you wanted to, it's
not a real file anymore.

~JK

"Jeff A. Earickson" wrote:
> 
> Howdy,
> 
>     Every day my daily activities report of Netbackup runs the command
> 
> bperror -U -problems -hoursago 24
> 
> and I always see the following complaint for my Sun (Solaris 8) systems:
> 
> [timestamp] [server] [client] from client [client]: WRN - Could not reset
>       access time of /etc/mnttab
> 
> The /etc/mnttab file is chmod 444, chown root:root on my Sun boxes.  On
> my HP systems (also backed up by NBU), it is chmod 644 and I get no
> complaints about /etc/mnttab from NBU.
> 
> My question is: why does NBU want to fiddle with my mounted filesystem
> table?  Why would it want to change the access time?  How to shut up
> NBU (without doing a chmod 644 to /etc/mnttab)?
> 
> --- Jeff Earickson
> 
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