Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ulticorp!rick From: rick@ulticorp.UUCP (rick/1024000) Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals Subject: Re: Uncrossable Mount Points Message-ID: <417@ulticorp.UUCP> Date: 5 Nov 90 16:37:16 GMT References: <24913@adm.BRL.MIL> Reply-To: rick@ulticorp.UUCP (rick/1024000) Organization: The Ultimate Corp., East Hanover, NJ Lines: 16 From Thor Lancelot Simon : > ... To root (UID 0) the file systems behave normally. To a > normal user, once one has cd'ed to /usr/local, it is impossible to cd .. - > impossible to cross the mount point. 'df .' from /usr/local yields > "Could not find mount point for ." We export the /usr/local filesystem to >a number of other machines, and on those machines, the mount point is crossable > which makes me feel that the problem must lie with the /usr filesystem on the > server. Can anybody shed some light on this? All the filesystems in question We had a similar problem on an RS/6000 using local mounts. The problem turned out to be the permissions on the directory before the mount were less than the permissions after the mount. -- | Email - !uunet!ulticorp!ultixrs!rick Rick Poleshuck | Voice - (201) 887-9222 Ext. 755 | Mail - The Ultimate Corporation, East Hanover, NJ 07936