Re: [ILUG] [OT] digital unix...

From: kevin lyda (kevin at domain suberic.net)
Date: Fri 25 May 2001 - 14:00:49 IST

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On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 01:07:06PM +0100, Justin Mason wrote:
> Maybe zsh exports $PWD, and /bin/sh doesn't set it. Hence the echo $PWD in
> sh echos the $PWD set by zsh.
>
> Is /kevin a symlink to /u/kevin?

that's just it, /kevin doesn't exist. in fact if i changed dir to any
dir with a base of /u, it would just drop the /u.

i rebooted the box and it started working again.

the word "boggle" comes to mind.

uname -a reports "OSF1 vger V5.1 732 alpha" just in case anyone else
sees this problem.

kevin

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