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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Strange file system problem.
Message-ID: <1989Dec8.131217.1624@virtech.uucp>
Date: 8 Dec 89 13:12:17 GMT
References: <21681@adm.BRL.MIL>
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc.
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In article <21681@adm.BRL.MIL>, ATT3B%UCONNVM.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Martin Stein) writes:
> After logging in i issue the 'pwd' command. It says:
> 
>            pwd: cannot open ..
> 
> Then i did 'cd /user1' and 'cd'. After that pwd works.

The problem is probably that you don't have read access to one of the
directories above you (or maybe your login directory itself).  the 
reason that pwd works after a cd /user1; cd is probably because the
shell that you are using keeps track of the current directory.  Try
to run /bin/pwd directly and see if the "cannot open .." reappears.

To find the problem you need to do an "ls -ld  .."  check permissions and 
if they are ok keep adding /.. until you find the directory tat does not
have read permissons.


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