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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!hunter.premier.net!news1.erols.com!howland.erols.net!quagga.ru.ac.za!uct.ac.za!not-for-mail From: mark@foxbat.sur.uct.ac.za (Mark Cammidge) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: getcwd gives 'permission denied' error on second drive only Date: 15 Sep 1996 18:18:55 GMT Organization: University of Cape Town Lines: 19 Message-ID: <51hhaf$hqa@groa.uct.ac.za> References: <51eepa$2mo@groa.uct.ac.za> <51fmal$aeg@twwells.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: foxbat.sur.uct.ac.za X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] : : partitions. : : : : The bsd slice on the second disk is partitioned into a /usr2 : : partition, and a swap partition. : : : : Both /usr and /usr2 are owner=root group=wheel, and both : : have permissions set to rwxr-xr-x. : : Unmount /usr2. Check the permissions on the underlying directory. : I'll bet they're not 755. Yes, this was indeed the problem. I was unaware that mounting changed the permissions displayed by ls, and the result was quite confusing. Thanks Mark