[SunHELP] missing parent directory

[Lyndon Griffin]

This nailed it...  thanks.

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<:)  Lyndon Griffin
     Sr. Systems Engineer
     Naviant (http://www.naviant.com/)

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On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, William W. Arnold wrote:

> 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.
>
>