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- From: lemke@MITL.COM (Kennedy Lemke)
- Subject: Problems with "open" and "pwd" commands
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.230936.28745@MITL.COM>
- Originator: lemke@narnia.MITL.COM
- Sender: news@MITL.COM
- Organization: Matsushita Information Technology Laboratory, Princeton, NJ
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 23:09:36 GMT
- Lines: 52
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- Hello. Two problems since our upgrade to 3.0:
-
- Problem #1: The "open" command. We use an automount entry for
- home directories that looks like this:
-
- /usr/etc/autonfsmount -tm 10 -tl 43200 -a /private /u userhomes
-
- "userhomes" is an nis map (yes, the nexts are running yp) that maps
- user names to hostname/directory paths. All user accounts, regardless
- of which disk they actually live on, can be accessed from any of our
- machines by accessing "/u/username". This has worked (and is still
- working) just fine. The problem occurs under version 3.0 with the
- "open" command. For example:
-
- [158]aslan--> open .bashrc
- open: can't stat file: /auto4000143/.bashrc
- [159]aslan--> open /u/lemke/.bashrc <---THIS ONE WORKS
- [160]aslan-->
-
- So you can't use the "open" command to access a directory in
- your home directory without specifying an absolute pathname
- that starts with "/u". Under 2.{1,2}, the "open" command worked
- fine. If you're in your home directory and you say "pwd", what
- returns is something like "/private/auto4000143". The "open"
- command clearly appears to be leaving off the "/private" part
- of the pathname when trying to open file. Anyone know why?
-
- Problem #2: using "bash" version 1.12, "pwd" (which is not aliased
- to anything) gives strange behavior. Sometimes it says the "right"
- thing; other times it returns an empty line. For example:
-
- [140]aslan--> pwd
- /private/auto4000143
- [141]aslan--> pwd
-
- [142]aslan--> pwd
-
- [143]aslan--> pwd
- /private/auto4000143
- [144]aslan-->
-
- Anyone know why? Thank you.
-
- Kennedy Lemke
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