Re: Howto install and run nfsd/mountd
> Great - it works.
> After one year playing with Linux I still feel like a school-pupil when I
> see real "teachers" like you.
don't feel bad. I've been using linux and unix since 1996 and
it wasn't until yesterday that I found out that / was an actual
directory(I thought it was a directory only in the virtual sense,
not in the physical sense).
I executed some commands which due to a symlink screwed up permissions
on all the files on the entire system, spent an hour fixing it as best
I could and another hour to try to figure out why I still couldn't
login unless I was a member of group root. called a developer into my
office to help, after a few minutes he said 'do an ls -ld /' I did
and sure enough everyone other then root had no read/execute access
for the / directory.
luckily I work with a dozen unix developers :)
nate
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