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From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
To: Roberto Nunnari <roberto.nunnari@supsi.ch>
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On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 10:50:40AM +0200, Roberto Nunnari wrote:

[...]
> 
> # su - robi
> su: /bin/csh: Permission denied
> 
> also,
> 
> # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/tomcat6 start
> Starting tomcat60.
> su: /usr/local/bin/bash: Permission denied

Check the permissions of "/". I suspect that you've lost the execute
or read bit off the directory.

Cheers.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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