Very Computer

I am using a Sparc 10 running SunOS 4.1.3.

An associate has brought an external 1 gigabyte disk, planning to copy our
development environment onto it and do some development for us at his office in
California.

We created a directory, /lhome, and mounted the disk with

mount /dev/sd2h /lhome

and copied the OS, compiler, libraries, source code, and Makefiles onto it.

So far, so good. But now when we cd to /lhome or anything under it, we cannot run
cshell scripts, which are an essential part of the development process.

In particular, typing '/bin/csh' results in the cryptic message:

getwd: can't stat ..

If we cd to /lhome, and say 'ls -ld /' , it says:

drwxr-xr-x 39 root         1024 Mar 24 06:33 /

But if we say 'ls -ld ..' , it says:

ls: ..: Permission denied

The problem is obviously in the way /lhome is connected to the root directory.

mount -p shows:

/dev/sd0a               /                  4.2 rw                1 1
/dev/sd0g               /usr               4.2 rw                1 2
/dev/sd0h               /tmp               4.2 rw                1 3
/dev/sd2h               /lhome             4.2 rw                1 4

which looks to this untrained eye as if /lhome is mounted analogously to /usr and
/tmp; but we have no corresponding problems in /usr and /tmp.

Our sysadmin is stumped. Can anyone help?

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|>> We created a directory, /lhome, and mounted the disk with
|>> mount /dev/sd2h /lhome
|>> and copied the OS, compiler, libraries, source code, and Makefiles onto it.
|>>  But now when we cd to /lhome or anything under it, we cannot run
|>> cshell scripts, which are an essential part of the development process.
|>> In particular, typing '/bin/csh' results in the cryptic message:
|>> getwd: can't stat ..
|>
|>> But if we say 'ls -ld ..' , it says:
|>> ls: ..: Permission denied
|>
|>Have you checked the permissions of the .. directory, which
|>is / (your root) directory?
|>And is the C shell in /bin/csh or (only) in /lhome/bin/csh?
|>

I have also seen these symptoms when the mount point has the wrong
permissions. Type
        umount /lhome
        ls -ld /lhome
and check you have world rx.

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Bob
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