[Note: This information is also provided in an attached file "SCRIPT1.txt" to ensure that special characters are transmitted unscathed. In the version of this information that is an attached file, all information between "-----" lines is copied directly from the relevant files and is bytewise accurate, other than for any transformation that savannah.nongnu.org applies to attached files.] Using Fedora 19: davfs2-1.4.7-3.fc19.x86_64 util-linux-2.23.2-5.fc19.x86_64 (for /usr/bin/mount) I have an entry in /etc/fstab: ----- https://dav.box.com/dav /home/worley/box.com davfs rw,user,noauto,uid=worley,gid=worley 0 0 ----- The entry in the davfs secrets file is: /home/worley/.davfs2/secrets: ----- https://dav.box.com/dav worley@ariadne.com xxxxxxxx ----- where the password has been changed to "xxxxxxxx". I attempt to mount https://dav.box.com/dav while running as user 'worley': $ mount /home/worley/box.com /sbin/mount.davfs: no entry for https://dav.box.com/dav found in /etc/fstab $ This message is particularly annoying because there obviously is an entry for https://dav.box.com/dav in /etc/fstab. The log lines (extracted with "journalctl | grep -E 'davfs|box\.com' >/tmp/g7") are: ----- Mar 07 17:19:23 hobgoblin.ariadne.com mount.davfs[15684]: davfs2 1.4.7 Mar 07 17:19:23 hobgoblin.ariadne.com mount.davfs[15684]: /sbin/mount.davfs https://dav.box.com/dav /common/home/worley/box.com -o rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,uid=1000,gid=1000,user ----- Please note that the mount point /home/worley/box.com listed in /etc/fstab is a symbolic link to the real mount point, /common/home/worley/box.com: $ ll -d /home lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 12 Aug 19 2013 /home -> /common/home $ This symbolic link is critical to the error, because if I edit /etc/fstab to specify /common/home/worley/box.com, davfs works correctly. This leads me to believe that the error process is that mount.davfs is looking for /common/home/worley/box.com in /etc/fstab, but cannot find it. Unfortunately, the message it generates is incorrect; it should say something like: /sbin/mount.davfs: no entry for /common/home/worley/box.com found in /etc/fstab But a better approach would be for mount.davfs to search /etc/fstab for all entries containing the specified WebDAV URL, and then use stat(2) to check if the mount point listed in the line is the same directory (same st_dev and st_ino) as the mount point in the mount.davfs command line. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The full /etc/fstab: $ ll /etc/fstab -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 2613 Feb 28 20:17 /etc/fstab ----- # # /etc/fstab # Created by anaconda on Thu Jul 25 16:35:15 2013 # # Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk' # See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or blkid(8) for more info # # /dev/sda # /dev/sda1 - Grub second stage # /dev/sda2 - Hobgoblin-Boot - Grub support files, Linux kernels, Linux initramfs's LABEL=Hobgoblin-Boot /boot ext4 defaults 1 2 # /dev/sda3 - LVM Hobgoblin00 # /dev/sda4 - Hobgoblin-Boot-2 - unused # # LVM VG Hobgoblin00 /dev/Hobgoblin00/RootF19 / ext4 defaults 1 1 /dev/Hobgoblin00/User /common ext4 defaults 1 2 /dev/Hobgoblin00/Swap swap swap defaults 0 0 #/dev/Hobgoblin00/RootF16 # https://dav.box.com/dav /home/worley/box.com davfs rw,user,noauto,uid=worley,gid=worley 0 0 # # Mountable media # # Backup disk /Store /dev/Freeze01/Store /Store ext4 defaults 0 0 # # sdb /dev/sdb /mnt/sdb auto noauto,user,uid=worley,nodev,nosuid,exec 0 0 /dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdb1 auto noauto,user,uid=worley,nodev,nosuid,exec 0 0 /dev/sdb2 /mnt/sdb2 auto noauto,user,uid=worley,nodev,nosuid,exec 0 0 /dev/sdb3 /mnt/sdb3 auto noauto,user,uid=worley,nodev,nosuid,exec 0 0 /dev/sdb4 /mnt/sdb4 auto noauto,user,uid=worley,nodev,nosuid,exec 0 0 # sdc /dev/sdc /mnt/sdc auto noauto,user,uid=worley,nodev,nosuid,exec 0 0 /dev/sdc1 /mnt/sdc1 auto noauto,user,uid=worley,nodev,nosuid,exec 0 0 /dev/sdc2 /mnt/sdc2 auto noauto,user,uid=worley,nodev,nosuid,exec 0 0 /dev/sdc3 /mnt/sdc3 auto noauto,user,uid=worley,nodev,nosuid,exec 0 0 /dev/sdc4 /mnt/sdc4 auto noauto,user,uid=worley,nodev,nosuid,exec 0 0 # sdd /dev/sdd /mnt/sdd auto noauto,user,uid=worley,nodev,nosuid,exec 0 0 /dev/sdd1 /mnt/sdd1 auto noauto,user,uid=worley,nodev,nosuid,exec 0 0 /dev/sdd2 /mnt/sdd2 auto noauto,user,uid=worley,nodev,nosuid,exec 0 0 /dev/sdd3 /mnt/sdd3 auto noauto,user,uid=worley,nodev,nosuid,exec 0 0 /dev/sdd4 /mnt/sdd4 auto noauto,user,uid=worley,nodev,nosuid,exec 0 0 # cdrom1 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,user,ro,uid=worley,nodev,nosuid,exec 0 0 -----