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