Thanks to all who responded to my question.
The problem was due to having the wrong permissions on the mount
point directory.
The steps to do, as the superuser
- Unmounting the filesystem
- Set the aproppiate permissions (755) to the mount point directory,
- Mount the filesystem
Thanks again
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Hackett [SMTP:hackett.john@gene.com]
> Sent: viernes 29 de octubre de 1999 16:43
> To: Irizar, Andoni
> Subject: Re: pwd cannot determine current directory
>
> hello,
> umount the filesystem and check the permissions on the underlining mount
> point.
>
> "Irizar, Andoni" wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > My system issues the following error on one of my machines when
> > doing a "pwd":
> >
> > pwd: cannot determine current directory
> >
> > It only happen with one of the mounted disks and on the machine
> the
> > disk is attached to.
> > The error is reported to normal users, but not to the superuser.
> > From other machines where the disk is NFS mounted this error
> does
> > not occur.
> >
> > Could anyone help on this??
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Andoni
> >
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> >
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