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Date:      Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:34:39 -0500
From:      Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: What happened to /home?
Message-ID:  <4ad871310912231634t53ba7df2p830bf1befe50904e@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20091223234013.GA1080@bsd.remdog.net>
References:  <20091223230111.GA1188@bsd.remdog.net> <200912240021.47525.pieter@degoeje.nl> <20091223234013.GA1080@bsd.remdog.net>

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Hi

On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Rem P Roberti <remegius@comcast.net> 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. =A0Well..=
.not
>> > exactly..but for all intents and purposes. =A0The system isn't seeing =
it
>> > although I can see it when I cd to /. =A0But if I try and cd to /home =
from
>> > there the system tells me "home:Not a directory." =A0What happened, an=
d
>> > what can I do about it?
>> >
>> > Rem
>>
>> 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 us=
er,
>> 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. =A0Output of 'ls -ld /home is:
>
> lrwxr-xr-x =A01 root wheel 8 Dec 18 12:08 /home -> usr/home
>

What does 'file /home' say?

--=20
Glen Barber



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