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 <[email protected]> wrote:
On 2009.12.24 00:21:47 +0000, 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 /. But if I try
and cd to /home from there the system tells me "home:Not a
directory." What happened, and what can I do about it?
Usually /home is a symlink to /usr/home. Perhaps the symlink is
busted? What it the output of `ls -ld /home' ? If you can still login
as a regular user, what does `pwd -P' say just after you are logged
in?
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 1 root wheel 8 Dec 18 12:08 /home -> usr/home
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'.
Are you sure about that?
On my FreeBSD 8 system, I just tried this:
cd /etc
ls /home/ckester
and the result was a listing of my home directory, not some directory
under /etc.
Yet the result of ls -ld /home on my system is the same as above.
The symlink named "home" is found in the root directory "/" and the
relative path usr/home is apparently relative to that root directory,
not the current directory.
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