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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!chi-news.cic.net!ddsw1!news.mcs.net!news.abs.net!news.bconnex.net!news2.insinc.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-pen-4.sprintlink.net!news.charm.net!news From: snowdog@charm.net (Sean Rolinson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Strange ksh shell problems with BSDI... Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 13:21:34 GMT Organization: Charm Net Inc. Lines: 43 Message-ID: <4vce7m$e52@canton.charm.net> References: <4vagis$2vd@canton.charm.net> Reply-To: snowdog@charm.net NNTP-Posting-Host: stimpy.charm.net X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Hello all, We found the problem to be a permissions problem with the /usr directory. Sean Rolinson snowdog@charm.net snowdog@charm.net (Sean Rolinson) once said: > Hello, > We are converting from Unixware to BSDI on our telnet server. I am in > the process of converting all the users over. I created a perl script > that read a copy of /etc/passwd and shadow and created users from a > list by reading those files. It appeared to work well, and kept us > from reiussing a ton of passwords. My problem is that I am getting a > weird shell error when logging in to the box. When I log in, I get a > message saying 'ksh: Cannot determine current working directory'. > When I type pwd I get a message saying 'ksh: pwd: can't get current > directory - Permission denied'. When I type 'cd', the problem goes > away and then everything seems fine. I have also su'ed to root right > after login and issued a 'pwd'. It showed the /usr/home/snowdog > directory from a pwd. > /usr/home, /usr/home2 and /usr/home3 are each 1 gig Partitions on > several 2 gig Seagate drives. Is it possible that these drives are > the problem, or possible the way they are setup??? It is a strange > problem. I have tried chpass to change directory information, etc all > to no avail. Any help, suggestions would be greatly appreciated... > Oh, this problem is only evident with ksh. sh, tcsh, bash, etc all > seem to work okay... > Thanks... > Sean > snowdog@charm.net