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Operating Systems Solaris SunOS confusing root directory and user home directory Post 303016338 by egyassun on Tuesday 24th of April 2018 04:57:04 PM
Old 04-24-2018
SunOS confusing root directory and user home directory
Hello,

I've just started using a Solaris machine with SunOS 5.10.
After the machine is turned on, I open a Console window and at the prompt, if I execute a pwd command, it tells me I'm at my home directory (someone configured "myuser" as default user after init).

Code:
 MACH1!myuser(staff,----,noView)@../myuser [41] pwd
 /home/staff/myuser

But the weird thing is that if I run a ls command, it shows me that in fact, itīs at the root directory (!!!)

Code:
 MACH1!myuser(staff,----,noView)@../myuser [42] ls -l
 (Shows directories: 
 /etc
 /home
 /usr ...)

And if I go to a subdirectory, something stranger happens.
It assumes a false path.
Code:
 MACH1!myuser(staff,----,noView)@../myuser [43] cd etc
 MACH1!myuser(staff,----,noView)@../etc [44] pwd
 /home/staff/myuser/etc

If I try to call this false path, the shell naturally can't do it.

Code:
 MACH1!myuser(staff,----,noView)@../etc [45] cd /home/staff/myuser/etc
 /home/staff/myuser/etc: No such file or directory

But if I call my home path, it works as expected.
Code:
 MACH1!myuser(staff,----,noView)@../etc [46] cd /home/staff/myuser
 /home/staff/myuser
  
 MACH1!myuser(staff,----,noView)@../myuser [47] ls -l
 (shows files in my home directory)

Well, I'm not so experienced with Unix and I have no idea what can be wrong. I looked some files such as .profile, dtautologin, but couldn't find anything that seemed to be causing this problem.

Can anyone give me a idea of whatīs wrong with the configuration of this machine ?
Last edited by rbatte1; 04-25-2018 at 10:53 AM.. Reason: Removed the font formatting and added CODE tags where appropriate
 

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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS

pwd

pwd(1T) 						       Tcl Built-In Commands							   pwd(1T)

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

NAME

       pwd - Return the absolute path of the current working directory

SYNOPSIS

       pwd
_________________________________________________________________

DESCRIPTION

       Returns the absolute path name of the current working directory.

EXAMPLE

       Sometimes it is useful to change to a known directory when running some external command using exec, but it is important to keep the appli-
       cation usually running in the directory that it was started in (unless the user specifies otherwise) since that minimises  user	confusion.
       The way to do this is to save the current directory while the external command is being run:
	      set tarFile [file normalize somefile.tar]
	      set savedDir [pwd]
	      cd /tmp
	      exec tar -xf $tarFile
	      cd $savedDir

SEE ALSO

       file(1T), cd(1T), glob(1T), filename(1T)

KEYWORDS

       working directory

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +--------------------+-----------------+
       |  ATTRIBUTE TYPE    | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
       +--------------------+-----------------+
       |Availability	    | SUNWTcl	      |
       +--------------------+-----------------+
       |Interface Stability | Uncommitted     |
       +--------------------+-----------------+
NOTES

       Source for Tcl is available on http://opensolaris.org.

Tcl																	   pwd(1T)
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