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To: Robert N Watson <rnw+@andrew.cmu.edu>
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From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: /usr mount difficulties after some boots+sessions 
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Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1996 09:14:17 +0000
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Robert N Watson wrote in message ID
<0l=emK200YUd16xUQ0@andrew.cmu.edu>:
> rebooted and went into single user mode, removed the /usr mountpoint
> directory, and then recreated it, and went up multi-user, and it was
> fixed.  Any advice as to what might be causing this would be much
> appreciated.  fsck failed to show any errors on boot, so I'm really not
> sure where to turn next.  If possible I'd like to prevent this from
> recurring..

My bet is that something removed the permissions on the directory that
/usr is mounted on. i.e. the one UNDERNEATH the mountpoint. Did you
unmount /usr and check to see what the permissions on /usr were? 
Not sure why these permissions would be revoked tho :-(

Gary