Problem with ls!

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

Hi

Try this:-

1. Create a new user the same as root and try that user.

2. Do all the users use the same .profile?

3. When did this start? What has been changged?

Paula

[Rory R Hammond]

Massimo

I can recreate this sort of thing by
creating a function
ls()
{
echo ""
}

Is it possible that ls is aliased in something like the /etc/profile?

Rory

[Tim Sanko]

I have also seen flakiness of all sorts in the past.

Try unmounting the drive, and fscking the filesystem, then remount, and then see. If this is a mirrored drive use solstice to unmirror, and then try again.

Tim

[Timothy P. Jackson]

Here is a shot in the dark.

I ran into a problem that made no sense at all....where I could not do a ls from a normal user login. Come to find out that someone over wrote the shell comand. Are the normal users using a different shell than root is?

Tim

[A. Clay Stephenson]

My best guess is that the permissions of the mountpoint are very restrictive; possibly even 000. Umount the filesystem and then do an ls -l on the mountpoint. You probably need to chmod 755 (or something similar) and then remount the filesystem.