On Tue, 3 Feb 1998, SamMaEl wrote:
> hobbes# ls -ld /etc
> dr--r--r--  13 root  wheel  2048 Feb  2 23:50 /etc/

Oh, that's bad :) Directories generally need to have "x" permission to
be useful (you can't cd into a directory without execute permission
set). Do a "chmod 755 /etc" (as root), and hopefully everything'll work :)