failed to mount /var/mail

[Jerome Salyers]

hi,

i'm not able to mount /var/mail directory, even as root... it only gives me the Permission Denied error... i'm running HPUX on C110 machines...

thanks in advance

[Trond Haugen]

Please give us some more info.
Is this a local or NFS mount?
Mount thru fstab or commandline?
What is the exect error message?
Does this fail on several machines?/Is it working on others?
Has this worked before?

Regards,
Trond

[harry d brown jr]

Jerome,

Like Trond asked, what was the command you tried to execute and what was the exact error message?

live free or die
harry

[K.Vijayaragavan.]

Hi,

I think you are trying to mount the /var/mail file system which is exported by another NFS server to use electronic mail.

on the server,

check the file /etc/exports for the entries,

"/var/mail -access=host1(your host name):host2:host3
exportfs /var/mail"

on the client,

see the file /etc/fstab for the entry,

"servername(your servername):/var/mail /usr/mail nfs rw,hard,fg 0 0"

and try to mount using the command,
mount /var/mail.
-Vijay