Re: odd behaviour of "pwd" & "df" after Live Upgrade?

From: Darren Dunham (ddunham_at_redwood.taos.com)
Date: 08/25/04 

Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 00:27:30 GMT

In comp.unix.solaris Richard L. Hamilton <Richard.L.Hamilton@mindwarp.smart.net> wrote:

>>> > google% pwd
>>> > pwd: cannot determine current directory!
>>> > google% df -k .
>>> > df: cannot canonicalize .: Permission denied
>>> > google%
>>> > google% cd
>>> > google% pwd
>>> > /export/home/solaris
>>> > google% df -k .
>>> > Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
>>> > /dev/dsk/c0t1d0s7 2992760 1174337 1788496 40% /export/home
>>> > google%

>> Yep, it's the permissions on the underlying mount point... I would try this:
>>
>> umount /export/home
>> chmod 755 /export/home
>> mount /export/home
>>
>> should take care of the problem....

> Now wait a minute - I thought underlying mount point permissions only
> were used by certain filesystems (like to provide initial top-level
> permission for tmpfs filesystems). I'm fairly sure they're _not_ used
> by ufs.

'used' or 'supposed to be used'?

I don't know if it's an actual bug or not, but the behavior of
underlying permissions on the mount point causing this kind of problem
has been in UFS for some time. 

-- 
Darren Dunham                                           ddunham@taos.com
Senior Technical Consultant         TAOS            http://www.taos.com/
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