[SunHELP] missing parent directory

[William W. Arnold]

Lyndon Griffin writes ---
>This is about the strangest problem I've ever encountered.  Having
>problems in a particular mounted file system where anything that tries to
>do a getcwd fails:  this includes man, df, and many others.
>
>Here's a look at the culprit filesystem:
>rage:/m05/$ ls -la
>./..: Permission denied
>total 0
>drwxr-xr-x   4 root     root          96 May 22 21:42 .
>drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root          96 May 23 11:01 lost+found

Grin.  I ran into this symptom once.
If you have the same problem/cause it's simple to fix.

Fix:
unmount the filesystem, and fix the permissions on the underlying mount point.

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-billy- warnold at vipnet.org