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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!swrinde!mips!darwin.sura.net!europa.asd.contel.com!uunet!super!rminnich From: rminnich@super.org (Ronald G Minnich) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: 386bsd mount points Message-ID: <1992Aug21.130650.3877@super.org> Date: 21 Aug 92 13:06:50 GMT References: <172e41INNpd5@disaster.Germany.EU.net> Sender: news@super.org (USENET News System) Organization: Supercomputing Research Center (Bowie, MD) Lines: 16 Nntp-Posting-Host: super In article <172e41INNpd5@disaster.Germany.EU.net> bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner) writes: >Experiment (repeat-by) : Create a directory mode 000 owner root. Mount >filesystem on top of that. Give mounted directory permissions 755. Log in >as ordinary user. Go into that directory. Type 'pwd' or 'ls -la'. >Watch the programs complain about '..'. This is a standard gotcha. in general if you are going to mount over something go ahead and make the mounted-over thing 777. ron -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- satisfaction: the feeling you get when you | rminnich@super.org run newfs on a DOS disk so you can install 386BSD.| (301)-805-7451 Now if only I could do this to AIX on the RS/6k ...|