Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: cannot acces parent Dir? | Date | Sun, 23 Aug 1998 09:13:42 -0300 | From | "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <> |
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In message <35DF83EF.FC61FAAB@maine.rr.com>, Division by Zero writes: +----- | > shell-init: could not get current directory: getwd: cannot access parent directories | hmm odd. Usually one gets that if the directory they are in is removed from a | nother VC. | Or, if yer not root, maybe you don't have permissions to that directory (or o | ne of its | parentdirs). | Or maybe your pathname could be too long? +--->8
Bash likes to do this on startup when the current directory is on AFS as well. I'm assuming it's an oddity (bug?) in how it determines its current directory --- but AFS for 2.0 kernels seems hacky itself as well, so what do I know? Yes, it happens even with short pathnames.
-- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering KF8NH carnegie mellon university
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