On 2021-06-23 at 09:59, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On a Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) machine: > > $ ls -ld /etc/systemd > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2021-04-19 09:40:41 /etc/systemd > $ ls /etc/systemd > ls: cannot open directory '/etc/systemd': No such file or directory > > Any explanation??? On a non-systemd machine, I get: $ ls -ld /etc/systemd/ drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jul 23 2019 /etc/systemd/ $ ls /etc/systemd/ system user It seems possible that the 4 vs. 3 may be notable. An empty directory will normally report 2: the '.' link from inside it, and the named link from the parent directory. 4 here reflects the two '..' links from the two visible subdirectories; 3 would indicate that one of those four links is missing on your system, and depending on which one that is, it seems possible that that could lead to misbehaviors. It could be useful to check on this with other tools. For a start, what does $ stat /etc/systemd/ report? Also, my first thought was to verify that ls is running the way you think it is. What do the following commands give you? $ type ls $ echo $LS_DEFAULT_OPTIONS -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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