getcwd: permission denied error

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1

When I do a 'cd /appl' and issue 'ls -al' command, I get the following error for .. directory.
./..: Permission denied
But still I get a listing of other directories under /appl.

Also, if I give 'man' for any command under this /appl folder, I get the following error:
getcwd: Permission denied

When I issued 'ls -ld /appl', I get the following output.

drwxrwxrwx 19 appmgr dp 1024 Feb 6 00:15 appl/

Is anything screwed up in the appl directory attributes?

Deepa

2

This seems to be an odd sequence of events. Post the result of:
uname -a
ls -lid /
cd /appl
df -n .
ls -ia . | grep "\.\."
ls -i . | grep "\.\."
Only one of the last two lines will produce output depending on whether or not you are root. To continue...
cd ..
/bin/pwd

Also what shell are you using? Is "ls" an alias?

3

Here is the output:

-----------------------------------------------------------------------
$ uname -a
SunOS obiwan 5.7 Generic_106541-15 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-Enterprise

$ ls -lid /
2 drwxr-xr-x 49 root root 1024 Feb 6 07:07 //

$ cd /appl
$ df -n .
/appl : vxfs

$ ls -ia . | grep "\.\."
./..: Permission denied

$ ls -i . | grep "\.\."
$ cd ..
$ /bin/pwd
/
$
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

We use ksh and there is no alias for 'ls' command.

Thanks
Deepa

4

I've seen stuff like this before on SunOS and I believe that it is a bug in the SunOS kernel. The problem is that the permissions on the mountpoint are wrong. After a mount, this should not matter, but with SunOS it does.

To make the problem go away, you need to do:

umount /appl
chmod 755 /appl
mount /appl