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Article #1636Problems with "open" and "pwd" commands
From: Kennedy Lemke
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 23:09
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 23:09
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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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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!yale.edu!newsserver.jvnc.net!mitl.com!lemke 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