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From: j@narcisa.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Shell (csh/bash) and Jove can't get home directory!
Date: 16 Jun 1995 20:48:07 +0200
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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).
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)