Mark Willey <mwilley@hillres142.cc.purdue.edu> writes:
> I just moved to a nice new WD2850 EIDE drive on my IDE controller.  Now,
> when I log in, it complains that it can't read my root directory, and sets
> root to /.  However, I can read the directory.  Also, executing "make"
> gives:
> 
> make: Permission denied.
> 
> but permissions are:
> 
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  90112 Nov  6 05:49 /usr/bin/make*
> 
> I get random permission problems with files all about the system.

Did you use tar(1) to copy the files over?  If so, did you use the -p
option on the extracting tar?  If not, it didn't restore the file modes
correctly.  That's a nasty problem.

	Mark
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