ATT3B%UCONNVM.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Martin Stein) (12/08/89)
On my brand new baby, a old 3B15 with two 340MB FSD disk drives, i
found a very strange problem (for me):
I set up two filesystems on disk 1 (which is the 2nd drive);
partition 1s6 (first 180992 blocks) is /user1
partition 1s2 (sec. 180992 blocks till 361984) is /user2
partition 1s3 is unused (yet)
I set up my homedirectory in /user1/mars
After logging in i issue the 'pwd' command. It says:
pwd: cannot open ..
Then i did 'cd /user1' and 'cd'. After that pwd works.
What is broken here. The .. entry is there. Did i do the
mounting wrong?
Thanx
Martincpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) (12/08/89)
In article <21681@adm.BRL.MIL>, ATT3B%UCONNVM.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Martin Stein) writes: > After logging in i issue the 'pwd' command. It says: > > pwd: cannot open .. > > Then i did 'cd /user1' and 'cd'. After that pwd works. The problem is probably that you don't have read access to one of the directories above you (or maybe your login directory itself). the reason that pwd works after a cd /user1; cd is probably because the shell that you are using keeps track of the current directory. Try to run /bin/pwd directly and see if the "cannot open .." reappears. To find the problem you need to do an "ls -ld .." check permissions and if they are ok keep adding /.. until you find the directory tat does not have read permissons. -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Conor P. Cahill uunet!virtech!cpcahil 703-430-9247 ! | Virtual Technologies Inc., P. O. Box 876, Sterling, VA 22170 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+