Cannot access home directory on /.

Andrew.Bridgeman at corusgroup.com Andrew.Bridgeman at corusgroup.com
Mon Jan 16 15:19:51 UTC 2006



I have many Redhat ES machines on our site and i have just noticed that for
some reason their /home directories are not showing anything inside it and
it should show a couple of local user  home areas. I also cannot mkdir a
directory in the home area and i also cannot mv the directory to another
name, i am running all these commands as root as well. Has anyone seen this
before the text is below to help. Any advice would be great!

ls -al

drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root         1024 Jan 31  2005 boot
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          191 Aug 22 18:59 clone-finish.sh
drwxr-xr-x   22 root     root       118784 Jan  3 07:54 dev
drwxr-xr-x   61 root     root         8192 Jan 16 11:29 etc
drwxrwxrwx    3 root     root         4096 Aug 24 14:41 flexlm
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root           51 Jan 25  2005 .fonts.cache-1
drwxr-xr-x    7 root     root         4096 Jan 13  2005 gridxpert
drwxrwxr-x    2 root     root            0 Jan  3 07:54 home
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Jan 24  2003 initrd
drwxr-xr-x   11 root     root         4096 Jan 25  2005 lib
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Jan 25  2005 local_scratch
drwx------    2 root     root        16384 Jan 25  2005 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Aug  9  2004 misc
drwxr-xr-x    5 root     root         4096 Jan 25  2005 mnt
drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root         4096 Jan 31  2005 opt
dr-xr-xr-x  534 root     root            0 Jan  3 07:53 proc
drwxr-x---    1 nfsnobody projects      512 Jan 12 15:47 projects
drwxr-xr-x   17 root     root         4096 Jan  3 08:08 root
drwxr-x---    1 nfsnobody projects      512 Jan 12 10:08 safety1
drwxr-x---    1 nfsnobody projects      512 Aug  4 21:53 safety2
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         8192 Jan 25  2005 sbin
drwxrwxrwx    1 nfsnobody projects      512 Jan 16 12:53 scratch
drwxrwxrwx    1 nfsnobody projects      512 Jan  3 15:28 software
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Jan 31  2005 software1
drwxrwxrwt    9 root     root        45056 Jan 16 15:05 tmp
drwxrwxrwx    1 nfsnobody projects      512 Dec 21 10:22 user
drwxr-xr-x   16 root     root         4096 Jan 28  2005 usr
drwxr-xr-x   22 root     root         4096 Jan 31  2005 var
cd /home
ls
ls -al
total 4
drwxrwxr-x    2 root     root            0 Jan  3 07:54 .
drwxr-xr-x   29 root     root         4096 Jan  3 07:53 ..
[root at lin17 home]# mkdir test
mkdir: cannot create directory `test': Permission denied
[root at lin17 home]# mv home home.old
mv: cannot stat `home': No such file or directory


Regards

Andrew Bridgeman
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