re:Why am I getting these messages?

["brian (b.c.) white" <bcwhite@bnr.ca>]

>shell-init: could not get current directory: getwd: cannot access parent directories

I have seen something like this happen on other systems when doing a
"getwd" on an NFS filesystem when the persmissions of the mount point
were not correct.

If this is on an NFS filesystem, try umounting it and doing an "ls -ld" on
the mount point.  You probably want the permissions to be "777".

                                        Brian
                                 ( bcwhite@bnr.ca )

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