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From: kellerman@tle.enet.dec.com (Jim Kellerman)
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Subject: Re: help needed with UCX
Keywords: UCX,VMS,NFS
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Date: 19 Apr 91 15:28:42 GMT
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In article <1991Apr17.210645.480@csc.canterbury.ac.nz>,
phys009@csc.canterbury.ac.nz writes:
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|> From: phys009@csc.canterbury.ac.nz
|> Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix,comp.sys.dec,comp.os.vms
|> Subject: help needed with UCX
|> Keywords: UCX,VMS,NFS
|> Message-ID: <1991Apr17.210645.480@csc.canterbury.ac.nz>
|> Date: 17 Apr 91 09:06:45 GMT
|> Reply-To: lawrence@isams.dnet.nasa.gov
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|> Organization: University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
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|> 
|> Hi folks
|> 
|> I have a ds5200 running ultrix 4.1 and a vax running VMS and UCX 1.3, and I
|> wanted to nfs serve some of the vms files to the ultrix system. I had
|> anticipated problems with the carriagecontrol in some files, but many unix
|> utilities plain dont work with the (unix) default directory set to a vms
|> directory exported by ucx. In particular the User Executive wont let me look
at
|> the files, and crashes with a core dump.
|> 
|> Thee error is something like:
|> getwd: read error in .. -- can't start new shell
|> 
|> I suppose I have set something up wrong, and need to RTFM. Could someone
point
|> me to the right M, or tell me what I have done wrong (or that I have
|> unreasonable expectations).
|> 
|> -- 
|> Bryan Lawrence                             
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|> Janet: uk.ac.ox.atm.isams::lawrence                                          
|> Internet: lawrence@isams.dnet.nasa.gov                                       
|> Mail:   Dept. Atmos. Physics., Clarendon Lab., Parks Rd, Oxford OX1 3PU.
U.K.
|> 

The problem is usually one of protection. Either a directory somewhere in the
path does not have READ+EXECUTE access for the VMS UIC that UCX translates your
Unix uid to, or you have a directory that is owned by a VMS rights identifier.