topic Re: directory access problem in Operating System - HP-UX

directory access problem

Kurtkarl — Tue, 27 Feb 2001 18:26:39 GMT

Hi,

I login as my ordinary user account. Now, when I'm at my own home directory ex. /home/user1 then run the command "man pwd" it works. But if I moved to a different dir, let say /www which is owned by me also and the permission is widely open I always got this error.

user1/www $man pwd
"Cannot access current directory."

and this is the permission of this directory.

drwxr-xr-x 4 user1 user 96 Feb 27 10:11 /www

It shows the correct path when I run "pwd" from /www directory. I could also "touch" or create a file under this directory.

Would appreciate if someone could help me on this.

Thanks in advance
Joey

Re: directory access problem

Sam Nicholls — Tue, 27 Feb 2001 19:36:48 GMT

Joey,

What is your MANPATH env var set to?

$ echo $MANPATH

I don't really know what the problem could be. But maybe a weird MANPATH could be the cause.

-sam

Re: directory access problem

Kurtkarl — Tue, 27 Feb 2001 20:04:14 GMT

Hi,

Thanks for the quick response, here's my MANPATH set to:

home/user1$ echo $MANPATH
/usr/share/man/%L:/usr/share/man:/usr/contrib/man/%L:/usr/contrib/man:/usr/local/man/%L:/usr/local/man:/opt/pd/share/man/%L:/opt/pd/sha
re/man:/opt/hparray/share/man:/opt/ignite/share/man/%L:/opt/ignite/share/man:/opt/resmon/share/man:/opt/pred/share/man/%L:/opt/pred/sha
re/man:/opt/graphics/PEX5/share/man:/opt/graphics/starbase/share/man:/opt/socks/man:/opt/softbench/man:/opt/perl5/man:/opt/softbench/sh
are/man:/opt/medusa/share/man:/opt/audio/share/man:/opt/blinklink/share/man:/opt/ansic/share/man/%L:/opt/ansic/share/man:/opt/langtools
/share/man/%L:/opt/langtools/share/man:/opt/CC/share/man:/opt/video/share/man:/opt/videoout/share/man:/opt/perf/man/%L:/opt/perf/man:/o
pt/prm/man/%L:/opt/prm/man:/opt/imake/man:/opt/pwplus/share/man:/opt/omni/lib/man:/opt/fcms/bin:/opt/aCC/share/man/%L:/opt/aCC/share/ma
n

I don't have any MANPATH set on my .profile file.

Thanks
Joey

Re: directory access problem

Andy Monks — Tue, 27 Feb 2001 20:45:38 GMT

does it just not work in the /www (or it's sub directories) or do you get the problem in /tmp too?

Re: directory access problem

Kurtkarl — Tue, 27 Feb 2001 20:50:06 GMT

it works on any system default filesystem such as /tmp, /opt, /stand and etc. But when I run this on /www which is separated LV and a mounted filesystem it wont work. To think I could create directory or touch a file.

Re: directory access problem

Andy Monks — Tue, 27 Feb 2001 20:55:17 GMT

Ok, I think I know what's occuring.

Can you umount /www and then check/change the permissions of the /www directory (remembering of course that there was a directory before you mounted something over it).

I believe you'll find that you don't have permissions on that directory. Once check/changed, mount the directory again and all should be well.

Re: directory access problem

Kurtkarl — Tue, 27 Feb 2001 21:25:52 GMT

Andy,

Thanks it works. I unmounted the /www fileystem and found out it's being owned by someone else.

It also help me resolved my problem that I posted earlier here at IT resource about "Softbench mapping problem". Again thanks.. Also this goes for all who reply on my message.

Thanks
Joey