Bug 57317

Summary: error: failed to open /etc/mtab for reading
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: eric gerbier <eric.gerbier>
Component: tmpwatchAssignee: Mike A. Harris <mharris>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Ben Levenson <benl>
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Description eric gerbier 2001-12-10 08:42:35 UTC 
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Description of problem:
I have this meesage each time I execute the command :
/etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch under root user (cron or interactive)
I have the package : tmpwatch-2.8-0.7.x
and ls -al /etc/mtab 
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          965 dic  4 16:41 /etc/mtab
I have the same problem on several linux computers on rh7.1

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. execute /etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch
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Actual Results:  error: failed to open /etc/mtab for reading

Additional info:

I try to be up-to-date with redhat errata packages
Comment 1 Aleksey Nogin 2001-12-11 17:46:55 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 56185 ***