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Date:      Sat, 27 May 2000 08:51:48 -0700
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        "Mark A. Hummel" <mhumm@ispchannel.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Why can't I cd to some of my directories?
Message-ID:  <20000527085148.G28594@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <392FD5A9.4A4EC3D@ispchannel.com>; from mhumm@ispchannel.com on Sat, May 27, 2000 at 09:03:21AM -0500
References:  <392FD5A9.4A4EC3D@ispchannel.com>

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* Mark A. Hummel <mhumm@ispchannel.com> [000527 07:37] wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I'm re-sending this in plain text... sorry about the html codes in the
> last post.
> 
> 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 and I get something like,
> "Sorry, can't cd to /usr/local."  Why?  I'm logged in as root.

can you ls -l and show us the entry for 'local'?  for some reason i have
the feeling that it's a symlink to someplace that doesn't exist.

> Now that I'm thinking about it, after I mount my CD  ROM, I can see the
> files on it and everything, but, for some reason, I can't unmount it and
> I can't get back to a directory on my BSD hard drive where root is
> mounted.  What's up?

What steps are you taking to accomplish this?  You can't really 
unmount a referenced mount point, so you'll need to make sure you
don't have any open files on the mounted filesystem before unmounting,
this includes just being in a directory on the mounted media.

> BTW, I'm sure you'll all be happy to know that I just got an email
> confirmation that my Complete FreeBSD 4.0 Book was shipped yesterday
> (May 26) from Walnut Creek.

:)

-Alfred


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