[rescue] first solaris 8 question

[Brian Hechinger]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 12:20:17AM -0500, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> I just set up my first Solaris 8 box (OK, my first solaris box).  I'm having
> trouble creating user directories.  Anyone mind explaining why what happens
> below happens, and how to work around it?  I am of course logged in as root.
> 
> # ls -l
> <snip>
> dr-xr-xr-x   1 root     root           1 Feb 21 11:56 home
> <snip>
> # chmod u+w /home
> chmod: WARNING: can't change /home
> # 

hee hee!  welcome to solaris!  this one gets everyone.  /home is the automount
directory.  it's not a real filesystem, it automounts home directories from an
NFS server if you set things up right.

try /export/home which is where all local user directories go, or look at
disabling the automounter daemon which will then let you use /home as a
regular directory.

but to be "solaris standards compliant" (not a bad thing) just put everything
in /export/home and leave /home as is.

-brian
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