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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!cs.utexas.edu!news.cs.utah.edu!sal.cs.utah.edu!kruckenb From: kruckenb@sal.cs.utah.edu (Pete Kruckenberg) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Shell (csh/bash) and Jove can't get home directory! Date: 19 Jun 1995 05:40:57 GMT Organization: University of Utah Computer Science Department Lines: 36 Message-ID: <3s32l9$4a6@magus.cs.utah.edu> References: <3rps45$156@magus.cs.utah.edu> <3rsjl7$jfj@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: sal.cs.utah.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] J Wunsch (j@narcisa.sax.de) wrote: : Pete Kruckenberg <kruckenb@sal.cs.utah.edu> wrote: : > csh: Permission denied : > csh: Trying to start from "/home/pete" : > : >Executing "pwd" gives "pwd: Permission denied". : ... : >And ls -l /home: : > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 9 Jun 11 22:20 /home -> /usr/home : >And ls -l /usr/home: : > drwxr-xr-x 2 pete wheel 512 Jun 15 11:46 pete : >I don't think it's a permissions problem. Any ideas what it might be? : I think it's a permission problem. What are the permissions for /usr : and /usr/home? Both directories must have the x-bits set (and should : have the r-bits set). No, it's not a permission problem. The permissions for /, /usr, and /usr/home are all rwxr-xr-x, owned by root.wheel. I did a test and changed the permissions to 777, and still had the same problem. The permissions for /bin/sh and /usr/local/bin/bash (which I copied also into /bin/bash) are rwxr-xr-x, owned by bin.bin. The other interesting thing is that if I use /bin/sh for my shell, everything works fine. Weird. Well, since I need to get this working tomorrow, I'm going to wipe everything clean and start a new 2.0.5R installation, then see what happens. I'll post my progress here. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Pete Kruckenberg kruckenb@sal.cs.utah.edu University of Utah pete@dsw.com Computer Engineering