From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 24 07:11:15 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4DC8106566B for ; Thu, 24 Dec 2009 07:11:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from corky1951@comcast.net) Received: from QMTA09.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta09.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.96]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AFDF8FC13 for ; Thu, 24 Dec 2009 07:11:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from OMTA18.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.74]) by QMTA09.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id Luyb1d0021bwxycA9vBGM5; Thu, 24 Dec 2009 07:11:16 +0000 Received: from comcast.net ([98.203.142.76]) by OMTA18.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id LvCP1d0021f6R9u8evCPAL; Thu, 24 Dec 2009 07:12:25 +0000 Received: by comcast.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 23 Dec 2009 23:11:12 -0800 Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 23:11:12 -0800 From: Charlie Kester To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20091224071112.GC25393@comcast.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20091223230111.GA1188@bsd.remdog.net> <200912240021.47525.pieter@degoeje.nl> <20091223234013.GA1080@bsd.remdog.net> <87vdfwhoen.fsf@kobe.laptop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87vdfwhoen.fsf@kobe.laptop> X-Mailer: Mutt 1.5.20 X-Composer: VIM 7.2 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Subject: Re: What happened to /home? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 07:11:15 -0000 On Wed 23 Dec 2009 at 22:33:20 PST Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:40:13 -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote: >>On 2009.12.24 00:21:47 +0000, Pieter de Goeje wrote: >>>On Thursday 24 December 2009 00:01:11 Rem P Roberti wrote: >>>> Today I booted my laptop and discovered that /home was gone. >>>> Well...not exactly..but for all intents and purposes. The system >>>> isn't seeing it although I can see it when I cd to /. But if I try >>>> and cd to /home from there the system tells me "home:Not a >>>> directory." What happened, and what can I do about it? >>> >>> Usually /home is a symlink to /usr/home. Perhaps the symlink is >>> busted? What it the output of `ls -ld /home' ? If you can still login >>> as a regular user, what does `pwd -P' say just after you are logged >>> in? >> >> I can still login as regular user, and when I run 'pwd -P' the output is >> / and then it goes back to the prompt. Output of 'ls -ld /home is: >> >> lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 8 Dec 18 12:08 /home -> usr/home > >That's your problem right there. /home does not point to the absolute >path of '/usr/home' but to a *relative* path starting at whatever >happens to be your current directory when you access '/home'. Are you sure about that? On my FreeBSD 8 system, I just tried this: cd /etc ls /home/ckester and the result was a listing of my home directory, not some directory under /etc. Yet the result of ls -ld /home on my system is the same as above. The symlink named "home" is found in the root directory "/" and the relative path usr/home is apparently relative to that root directory, not the current directory.