From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 27 17:35: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.alpha.net.au (mail2.alpha.net.au [203.41.44.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5C8F37B590 for ; Sat, 27 May 2000 17:34:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dannyh@idx.com.au) Received: from freebsd.freebsd.org (surry-pool-142.alpha.net.au [203.41.44.142] (may be forged)) by mail.alpha.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA02045; Sun, 28 May 2000 10:37:06 +1000 From: Danny To: "Mark A. Hummel" , freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Why can't I cd to some of my directories? Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 10:41:52 +1000 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.21] Content-Type: text/plain References: <392FD5A9.4A4EC3D@ispchannel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00052910422606.00361@freebsd.freebsd.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG - If you want to unmount the /cdrom - Try umount /cdrom - Then cd / On Sun, 28 May 2000, Mark A. Hummel 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. > > 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? > > 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. > > Thanks > > 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