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From: jms@tardis.tymnet.com (Joe Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: getwd() problems
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Date: 2 Feb 90 02:59:29 GMT
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>Suppose a user logs in into process1, and goes to the directory
>/usr/kti/proj2. Note that this is physically a directory of process2. When
>he tries to do a 'pwd' he gets the message "pwd: getwd: can't open .."

The same thing happened to us today.  I found the problem by typing "cd
.." over and over again until it failed.  The problem was that "/.." (the
root directory) was protected drwxrw---- instead of drwxr-xr-x.

Do an "ls -ld /" on both systems to be sure.

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