On 03/07/2008 Sven Joachim wrote: > > But I discovered something really strange. If I compare the output of > > 'ls -al /' on my system and in the chroot, several directory sizes seem > > to be different. I thought that directorys always have a size of > > 4069 bytes, but apparently this is not the case: > > The size of directories is a multiple of the inode size, at least in > ext2/3 filesystems (might be different in reiserfs, I'm no expert). If > a directory has many entries, its size grows and will not shrink back if > you delete these entries. Since your system has been in use for several > years, the differences are not so strange.
Ah, that explains the differences. thanks for the information. > > (on system) # ls -al / > > total 113 > > drwx------ 24 root root 4096 2008-07-03 18:51 . > > drwx------ 24 root root 4096 2008-07-03 18:51 .. > > [...] > > Now to the failing su (and login) for non-root users: Have a close look > at the first lines of your directory listing and tell me if you see > anything strange. ;-) > > I bet that after "chmod 755 /" you will be able to log in as a normal > user again and your services will start to function. :-) Yay, that's it! Everything works as expected again. Thanks a lot!!! I don't know why I didn't find it earlier myself. thanks for all your help, you rock! greetings, jonas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
