On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Tod McQuillin wrote:

> On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Joe Laffey wrote:
>
> > My NetBSD box (1.4.2 locked up when I tried to do an rsync of the root
> > directory (everything) over to my linux box. I rebooted it and, though
> > everything works fine as root, I cannot do anything as a regular user.
> > When I try to login I get "No home directory /home/joe!" But this
> > directory _IS_ there and I can list it as root. The mode of /home is 755
> > and of /home/joe is 755 joe.users.
> >
> > I try to su to joe as root and I get /bin/csh permission denied.
>
> You might see similar symptoms if the root directory were unreadable to
> non-root users.
>
> What are the permissions on / ?  (ls -ld /)

Hey.. You are the man! That was the problem. I think that the problem
actually was casued by having my rsync command backwards (tried to copy
the backup folder over my root directory!! Luckily I was using a mode that
would not delete files.. but it did mess up the permissions.

Now I wonder why my rsync made the box crash hard (no panic or anything..
nothing would respond from the terminal... I could connect to open ports,
but the daemons would not respond).

I was using:

rsync -arpvcz --partial --progress -e 'ssh' root@akram2:/ /bshare/akram

(akram2 is the NetBSD box I was trying to copy from)

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks for your help!

Joe Laffey
LAFFEY Computer Imaging
St. Louis, MO
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