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Subject: No home directory?
Date: Sat, 02 Mar 1996 20:26:09 EST
From: rslight@MIT.EDU
I'm getting a very strange problem on linux which I can't even begin to try
to figure out. It is setup to have a local account called rslight which
runs the shell /bin/tcsh, and then in the startup files, it gets tickets,
loads zwgc, etc. Sometimes, it somehow gets into a state where I login
as rslight and it prints:
Last login: Sat Mar 2 20:12:44 on tty1
Linux 1.3.69.
No directory /home/rslight!
Yet, the directory does exist, and an ls -alF of /home gives:
nitrogen:/home> ls -alF
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 Feb 19 01:48 ./
drwx------ 21 root root 1024 Aug 6 1995 ../
drwxrwxr-x 8 rslight wheel 1024 Aug 1 1994 ftp/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 rslight root 8 Feb 19 01:47 root -> rslight//
drwxr-xr-x 7 rslight users 1024 Mar 2 20:19 rslight/
And an ls-alF from / gives:
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 Feb 19 01:48 home/
It seems like it should be accessible. The second clue is that when I login
as root, which does work, and then try to su to rslight, it gives:
nitrogen:/etc> su rslight
su: cannot run /bin/tcsh: Permission denied
Yet, if I do ls -alF *sh* from the /bin directory, I get:
nitrogen:/bin> ls -alF *sh*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root bin 299649 Aug 14 1995 bash*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Mar 2 20:18 csh -> tcsh*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Jan 19 21:34 sh -> bash*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root bin 243905 Aug 6 1995 tcsh*
So it seems that tcsh should be runable. This has happened a few times before,
and eventually I think it just started working again. I've tried reinstalling
tcsh, and sometimes it helps and sometimes it doesn't.
Do you know what's going on here? I'm completely stumped.
Thanks a lot.
Russell Light
(rslight@mit.edu)
