Re: What happened to /home?

2009-12-27 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 23:11:12 -0800, Charlie Kester corky1...@comcast.net wrote: On Wed 23 Dec 2009 at 22:33:20 PST Giorgos Keramidas wrote: I can still login as regular user, and when I run 'pwd -P' the output is / and then it goes back to the prompt. Output of 'ls -ld /home is: lrwxr-xr-x

Re: What happened to /home?

2009-12-24 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:01:11 -0800, Rem P Roberti remeg...@comcast.net wrote: Today I booted my laptop and discovered that /home was gone. Well...not exactly..but for all intents and purposes. The system isn't seeing it although I can see it when I cd to /. But if I try and cd to /home from

Re: What happened to /home?

2009-12-24 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 24 Dec 2009 08:33:20 +0200, Giorgos Keramidas keram...@ceid.upatras.gr wrote: That's your problem right there. /home does not point to the absolute path of '/usr/home' but to a *relative* path starting at whatever happens to be your current directory when you access '/home'. Try

Re: What happened to /home?

2009-12-24 Thread Rem P Roberti
I hope you won't see something like % cd mnt/poly mnt/poly: Not a directory. % file mnt/poly mnt/poly: cannot open `mnt/poly' (Bad file descriptor) That is exactly what I saw, and nothing worked to try and fix the problem. So, as I indicated in an

Re: What happened to /home?

2009-12-23 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Thursday 24 December 2009 00:01:11 Rem P Roberti wrote: Today I booted my laptop and discovered that /home was gone. Well...not exactly..but for all intents and purposes. The system isn't seeing it although I can see it when I cd to /. But if I try and cd to /home from there the system

Re: What happened to /home?

2009-12-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 03:01:11PM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote: Today I booted my laptop and discovered that /home was gone. Well...not exactly..but for all intents and purposes. The system isn't seeing it although I can see it when I cd to /. But if I try and cd to /home from there the

Re: What happened to /home?

2009-12-23 Thread Rem P Roberti
On 2009.12.24 00:21:47 +, Pieter de Goeje wrote: On Thursday 24 December 2009 00:01:11 Rem P Roberti wrote: Today I booted my laptop and discovered that /home was gone. Well...not exactly..but for all intents and purposes. The system isn't seeing it although I can see it when I cd to

Re: What happened to /home?

2009-12-23 Thread Glen Barber
Hi On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Rem P Roberti remeg...@comcast.net wrote: On 2009.12.24 00:21:47 +, Pieter de Goeje wrote: On Thursday 24 December 2009 00:01:11 Rem P Roberti wrote: Today I booted my laptop and discovered that /home was gone.  Well...not exactly..but for all intents

Re: What happened to /home?

2009-12-23 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 23 December 2009 15:34:39 Glen Barber wrote: Hi On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Rem P Roberti remeg...@comcast.net wrote: On 2009.12.24 00:21:47 +, Pieter de Goeje wrote: On Thursday 24 December 2009 00:01:11 Rem P Roberti wrote: Today I booted my laptop and discovered

Re: What happened to /home?

2009-12-23 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 23 Dec 2009, Rem P Roberti wrote: Today I booted my laptop and discovered that /home was gone. Well...not exactly..but for all intents and purposes. The system isn't seeing it although I can see it when I cd to /. But if I try and cd to /home from there the system tells me home:Not a

Re: What happened to /home?

2009-12-23 Thread Glen Barber
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 7:43 PM, Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote: What does 'file /home' say? It is a symlink. What you really want to see is ls -l /home/. Note the trailing slash. It _should_ be a symlink, which is what I am getting at. Additionally, what does

Re: What happened to /home?

2009-12-23 Thread Rem P Roberti
On 2009.12.23 17:45:38 +, Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 23 Dec 2009, Rem P Roberti wrote: Today I booted my laptop and discovered that /home was gone. Well...not exactly..but for all intents and purposes. The system isn't seeing it although I can see it when I cd to /. But if I try and

Re: What happened to /home?

2009-12-23 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 23 December 2009 15:46:57 Glen Barber wrote: On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 7:43 PM, Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote: What does 'file /home' say? It is a symlink. What you really want to see is ls -l /home/. Note the trailing slash. It _should_ be

Re: What happened to /home?

2009-12-23 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:40:13 -0800, Rem P Roberti remeg...@comcast.net wrote: On 2009.12.24 00:21:47 +, Pieter de Goeje wrote: On Thursday 24 December 2009 00:01:11 Rem P Roberti wrote: Today I booted my laptop and discovered that /home was gone. Well...not exactly..but for all intents and

Re: What happened to /home?

2009-12-23 Thread Charlie Kester
On Wed 23 Dec 2009 at 22:33:20 PST Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:40:13 -0800, Rem P Roberti remeg...@comcast.net wrote: On 2009.12.24 00:21:47 +, Pieter de Goeje wrote: On Thursday 24 December 2009 00:01:11 Rem P Roberti wrote: Today I booted my laptop and discovered

Re: What happened to /home?

2009-12-23 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 08:33:20AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:40:13 -0800, Rem P Roberti remeg...@comcast.net wrote: On 2009.12.24 00:21:47 +, Pieter de Goeje wrote: On Thursday 24 December 2009 00:01:11 Rem P Roberti wrote: Today I booted my laptop and