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- From: fred@dickens.com (Fred R Stearns)
- Subject: Re: Unreadable Directories
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.113152.28071@dickens.com>
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 11:31:52 GMT
- References: <1992Sep8.225502.17427@ucc.su.OZ.AU>
- Organization: Dickens Data Systems, Inc.
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- In article <1992Sep8.225502.17427@ucc.su.OZ.AU> wonga@steam.chem.su.oz.au (Adrian Wong) writes:
- >I have a corrupted directory, when I do a ls it returns with
- >
- > unreadable
-
- If it (actually) says:
-
- . unreadable
-
- then you're probably missing the "." entry in your directory.
- From its parent, try:
-
- /etc/link foo foo/.
-
- >
- >and pwd also doesn't work. However I can still
- >cd into any of the sub-directories and everything else is fine.
- >It's not a NFS mount.
- >
- >How do I remedy the problem?
- >Thanks
- >-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- >Adrian Wong, Dept.of Theoretical Chemistry wong_a@summer.chem.su.oz.au
- >University of Sydney NSW 2006 Australia 061-2-692 4137
-
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- Fred R. Stearns -- fred@dickens.com
- Everything's a kludge!
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