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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!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!news.mathworks.com!newsgate.duke.edu!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!paperboy.wellfleet.com!newsmaster From: Robert Withrow <bwithrow@baynetworks.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: 2nd try: amd -vs- home directories... Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 12:38:21 -0400 Organization: Bay Networks, Inc. Lines: 28 Message-ID: <3246BCFD.41C67EA6@baynetworks.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dino.wellfleet.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b7 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE i386) For some reason FreeBSD is converting home directory mountpoints to the actuall mount directory, which causes problems. Can someone tell me how to prevent this? bash$ ypcat passwd | grep bwithrow bwithrow:<rem>:<rem>:20:Robert Withrow:/bne/home/bwithrow:/bin/csh bash$ telnet tuva Trying 192.32.180.119... Connected to tuva Escape character is '^]'. FreeBSD (tuva) (ttyp3) login: bwithrow Password: bash$ pwd /a/akila-e1/usr25/bwithrow bash$ echo $HOME /bne/home/bwithrow bash$ cd $HOME bash$ pwd /bne/home/bwithrow -- Robert Withrow -- (+1 508 436 8256) BWithrow@BayNetworks.com