Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 08:57:11 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: Pieter de Goeje <pieter@degoeje.nl>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What happened to /home? Message-ID: <20091224075711.GA55270@owl.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <87vdfwhoen.fsf@kobe.laptop> References: <20091223230111.GA1188@bsd.remdog.net> <200912240021.47525.pieter@degoeje.nl> <20091223234013.GA1080@bsd.remdog.net> <87vdfwhoen.fsf@kobe.laptop>
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On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 08:33:20AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:40:13 -0800, 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. > >>> 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'. Wrong. Relative paths in symlinks start at the symlink is in, not the current directory. I.e. that the symlink is relative should not be a problem. (Under AmigaOS relative symlinks worked as you describe, which made them a PITA and fairly useless, but under Unix relative symlinks have a more sane behaviour.) -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se
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