topic Re: dirs appear to be empty in Operating System - HP-UX

dirs appear to be empty

TMcB — Fri, 29 Jun 2001 09:20:36 GMT

Help!!

Whenever I do an ls on any dir it appears to be empty.

Thankfully, I realised that the files are still there, as I was able to run sam and mount the root director on another machine and to an ls.

This is happening on all consoles.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Re: dirs appear to be empty

Volker Borowski — Fri, 29 Jun 2001 09:37:19 GMT

Hi,

somebody played a joke to you and replaced
/usr/bin/ls with something else ?

Try to use /sbin/ls

Volker

Re: dirs appear to be empty

KapilRaj — Fri, 29 Jun 2001 09:38:15 GMT

how do you say the dir is empty ?. If the directory is an automounted one you may find this.

Or some problem with /usr/bin/ls command just checkup the size & compare it with another copy

kaps

Re: dirs appear to be empty

Bill McNAMARA_1 — Fri, 29 Jun 2001 09:43:22 GMT

try cat'ing the directory name
cp the ls of another system over.

Later,
Bill

Re: dirs appear to be empty

TMcB — Fri, 29 Jun 2001 09:44:54 GMT

Thanks folks

you were absolutely right - I copied /sbin/ls to /usr/bin, and I can see all my files again

Thanks for the help

Re: dirs appear to be empty

Bill McNAMARA_1 — Fri, 29 Jun 2001 09:50:42 GMT

/sbin/ls is a statically linked file, you should copy ls from another systems or backup /usr/bin over..

Later,
Bill

Re: dirs appear to be empty

Volker Borowski — Fri, 29 Jun 2001 10:06:11 GMT

Bill is right,
you should substitute the correct one !
/sbin/ls was just an alternative to get the output.

BTW: If the system has been corrupted in such a way, I would check if somebody did change something else, esp. the lv* commands, because you use them frequently and they have s-bit set !

Volker