On Wed, 5 Mar 1997 16:46:31 +0100 (MET) 
 Andrew Wheadon <andrew@wipux2.wifo.uni-mannheim.de> wrote:

 > > getcwd() failed: Permission denied
 > 
 > I have been seeing the same problem with wn (another completely
 > differently written Web-server, running as user nobody.)

Are the files you're attempting to access on NFS?

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