From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 27 8:17:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5645537B5DF for ; Sat, 27 May 2000 08:17:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e4RFpm027496; Sat, 27 May 2000 08:51:48 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 08:51:48 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: "Mark A. Hummel" Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Why can't I cd to some of my directories? Message-ID: <20000527085148.G28594@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <392FD5A9.4A4EC3D@ispchannel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <392FD5A9.4A4EC3D@ispchannel.com>; from mhumm@ispchannel.com on Sat, May 27, 2000 at 09:03:21AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Mark A. Hummel [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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message