Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 17:34:40 -0800 (PST) From: Anthony Rho <anthonyrh@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: error getting cwd when logging in as user Message-ID: <19990203013440.28239.rocketmail@send501.yahoomail.com>
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Hello, I have recently had to transfer all of our home users's directories to another machine due to some restructuring in our sysytem methodology. Here's how I did it; I'll try to be as (superflously) detailed as possible, so please bare with me :) First, the partition information for both FreeBSD 2.2.6 machines (mach1 and mach2) - we basically setup four partitions, each mounted on /, /usr, /var and of course the last is for swap. On the older machine (mach1), I did these NFS commands: mount -t nfs mach2:/ /mnt/mach1/ mount -t nfs mach2:/usr /mnt/mach1/usr/ mount -t nfs mach2:/var /mnt/mach1/var/ I then did these cpio commands: cd /usr find . -print | cpio --verbose -p --make-directories --preserve-modification-time --unconditional /mnt/mach1/usr cd /var find . -print | cpio --verbose -p --make-directories --preserve-modification-time --unconditional /mnt/mach1/var The file transfer went well (I haven't noticed any file corruption), so I proceeded with bringing over the necessary /etc/ files - passwd, group, and master.passwd. We use stock login.access and login.conf configurations, so we left these alone. Once these were copied over, I ran vipw and made a small change to a user's realname and saved and exited (to rebuild the pw database). Much later during this ordeal, I ended up deleting the /etc/*pwd.db files and ran pwd_mkdb. Now the problem :) If I login as a normal user, I get this error: shell-init: could not get current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories job-working-directory: could not get current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories [user@mach2 .]$ Doing an ls: [user@mach2 .]$ ls ..lots of files listed correctly.. Doing a pwd: [user@mach2 .]$ pwd pwd: could not get current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories Finally, a cd (and another ls and pwd): [user@mach2 .]$ cd cd_links: could not get current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories [user@mach2 ~]$ ls ..lots of files listed correctly.. [user@mach2 ~] pwd /usr/www/user Note the change from '.' to '~' in the cwd field of the prompt. user's home directory is /usr/www/user, so this shouldn't be related to the /home -> /usr/home symlink. The directory permissions up to this directory are 755, owned by root and group owned by wheel. The relevant /etc files are 644/00 (passwd|group/master.passwd). Other symptoms: I temporarily changed user's home directory to point to other directories under /usr, only to get the same error. I then changed user's home directory to some locations in / and /var.. and guess what? The user can login normally without the error! This leads me to believe that maybe the /usr partition is not being mounted properly, so here's my /etc/fstab: bash-2.01# cat /etc/fstab # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# /dev/sd0s1b none swap sw 0 0 /dev/sd0s1a / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/sd0s1f /usr ufs rw 2 2 /dev/sd0s1e /var ufs rw 2 2 proc /proc procfs rw 0 0 ..which of course looks normal. *phew* I think that's it. A simple 'cd' seems to fix it, but unfortunateley this does not work for CGIs that the webserver depends on - they end up failing. Many thanks to anyone who can figure out what might be going wrong :) Take care Anthony _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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