Hi folks,
Thanks to Hoai Tran who hit the nail on the head with this
one.
The Problem:
> Recently we upgraded to DU 4.0 and I've got a strange
> problem. Here it is:
>
> % pwd
> pwd: Permission denied
> %
>
> What did upgrading do so I lose access to optain a result
> from pwd and how do I fix it?
Hoai's answer:
> It is most likely caused the account you are using does
not have rx access
> the directories above the current directory.
After the upgrade /usr had permissions:
d-wx-wx--x 35 root system 8192 Oct 29 10:47 usr
When I chmod to allow read permission it solved the problem.
Thanks also to Jeff Berliner, Sean McGlynn, Daniel Clar, &
Dr. Thomas P. Blinn
Stephen
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Stephen Trew,
School of Geosciences, The Queen's University of Belfast
Belfast, BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland, UK.
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Received on Tue Nov 03 1998 - 09:07:38 NZDT