trost@reed.edu (06/25/91)
[Oh no, not this again!] Does anyone know if 4.2 has fixed the "getwd: can't open .." problem? I can't find it mentioned in the release notes. This usually occurs on a nested NFS mount with root as the user. For instance: # mount | grep brahma brahma:/ on /brahma type nfs (rw,hard,bg,retrans=6) brahma:/dal on /brahma/dal type nfs (rw,hard,bg,retrans=6) # pwd pwd: getwd: can't open .. I'm really loathe to install 4.2 until I see a big win from installing it.
cks@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu (Chris Siebenmann) (06/27/91)
trost@reed.edu writes: | Does anyone know if 4.2 has fixed the "getwd: can't open .." problem? Although I don't know if it's the same problem, I had this happen locally with some users, and managed to track down the problem (and fix it). We had two file systems, /foo and /foo/bar, and some users were getting the "can't open .." when they cd'd to /a/b or anything underneath. After some poking around, I discovered that the /foo/bar directory on /foo was mode 750 (although the root of the /foo/bar filesystem was mode 755) and the users that were getting the error weren't in the group of the directory. Chmodding the /foo/bar directory to mode 755 and remounting stuff fixed the problem. Isn't NFS fun. -- "NFS should be viewed as a superior replacement for FTP, not as a real network-wide Unix filesystem." - Henry Spencer cks@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu ...!{utgpu,utzoo,watmath}!utgpu!cks