From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 26 16:34:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.hutchtel.net (ns1.hutchtel.net [206.9.112.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50D0237B95D for ; Fri, 26 May 2000 16:34:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jpaetzel@hutchtel.net) Received: from JoshPaetzel (hutch-360.hutchtel.net [206.10.68.60]) by ns1.hutchtel.net (8.9.1/8.9.0) with SMTP id SAA17496; Fri, 26 May 2000 18:34:17 -0500 (CDT) From: "Josh Paetzel" To: "Mark A. Hummel" , "freebsd-questions" Subject: RE: Why can't I cd to certain directories??? Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 18:33:50 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 In-Reply-To: <392F4E00.388262BF@ispchannel.com> Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Mark A. Hummel Sent: Friday, May 26, 2000 11:25 PM To: freebsd-questions Subject: Why can't I cd to certain directories??? Greetings, Sometimes when I try to cd to a directory like /usr/local/... I get an error message reading: Can't cd to ... I then try to cd one level down at a time. #cd /usr then pwd to find out I actually made the trip. Then cd /local Sorry, can't cd to /usr/local. Why when I'm logged in as a su? If you are entering a command like #cd /local you are specifying a directory /local. Chances are this directory does not exist. If you are trying to get to /usr/local one step at a time you can do: #cd /usr #cd local If you start a cd command with a / you are specifying that the directory you are looking for is off of root. More newbie questions coming. Thanks people Mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message