Thank you in advance for your help.

I am using RHEL4 and my instructor has taken down my server and I have to troubleshoot it. I have the server in rescue mode. I had to find the path to the mount file but the whereis command gave me several files and I don't know which path to use in my query of the RPM.

Here are the file/paths:
/sbin/mount.smb
/sbin/mount.cifs
/sbin/mount.smbfs
**I am pretty sure the 2 files below are compressed files**
/usr/share/man/man2/mount.2.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/mount.8.gz

When I used this command:
rpm -qf /sbin/mount

I got this error message:
error: file /sbin/mount: No such file or directory

I am trying to determine which rpm I need so that I can download it and install to get the mount file restored so that I can complete the assignment. If I am doing something wrong would you mind explaining what it is exactly that I am doing wrong?

Thanks,
Erik

Sorry, it is not proper for us to do your school work for you.

I will offer you some hints however: 'which mount', 'man rpm' and also 'man mount'

I do not want you to do my assignment, I am paying a lot of money for this class and I am well aware of ethical behavior in computer science. I am asking for clarification and explanation of what I am seeing, if you consider that to be doing my assignment then that is your prerogative.

With that said could you explain what those commands do? RHEL 4 documentation does a poor job of listing commands and what they do. Could you tell me what the different file extensions mean?

Thank you,
Erik

Hi.

'mount' is in /bin , not /sbin

Dave

As ilikejam already stated mount is in the /bin directory not the /sbin directory. The man commands above are fairly complete manuals for each. The which command tells you were something can be found.

May I suggest that you beg/borrow/purchase the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Bible and maybe some other suggest books at the link below;

http://www.amazon.com/Fedora-Red-Ent.../dp/0471754919

Also google is your friend; http://www.google.com/linux and The Linux Documentation Project: http://tldp.org/ can be quite helpful as well. Try using the google link and enter in any of the commands from my earlier reply.

For example: http://linux.die.net/man/8/mount.cifs

The Red Hat manual actually do a good job explaining the commands, but they do take lots of reading for understanding as they are not geared towards the layman.

These are helpful aids to mounting Windows shares.

You are ring they are compressed files, they are the manual pages for the mount command to be exact.