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From: Robert Withrow <bwithrow@baynetworks.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: 2nd try: amd -vs- home directories...
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 12:38:21 -0400
Organization: Bay Networks, Inc.
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For some reason FreeBSD is converting home directory
mountpoints to the actuall mount directory, which causes
problems.  Can someone tell me how to prevent this? 

bash$ ypcat passwd | grep bwithrow
bwithrow:<rem>:<rem>:20:Robert Withrow:/bne/home/bwithrow:/bin/csh

bash$ telnet tuva
Trying 192.32.180.119...
Connected to tuva
Escape character is '^]'.

   FreeBSD (tuva) (ttyp3)

login: bwithrow
Password:

bash$ pwd
/a/akila-e1/usr25/bwithrow
bash$ echo $HOME
/bne/home/bwithrow
bash$ cd $HOME
bash$ pwd
/bne/home/bwithrow

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Robert Withrow -- (+1 508 436 8256)
BWithrow@BayNetworks.com