X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <450DCC00.7020007@cygwin.com> Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 18:28:16 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.5) Gecko/20060727 Fedora/1.5.0.5-1.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5.0.5 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Problems accessing c: root folder - permissions? References: <4c70e470609171258i6aaf8a2ap5470d5b7a2a336dc AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> In-Reply-To: <4c70e470609171258i6aaf8a2ap5470d5b7a2a336dc@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com abstractryan AT gmail DOT com wrote: > Hi All: > > I've searched for solutions to this problem and can remember running > into it in the past. For some reason, something happened to my root > dir on C: and im not sure how it happened exacty. When i go to > /cygdrive/c/ and attempt an 'ls' ( or similar ) here's what I get.... > > $ ls > ls: reading directory .: No such file or directory > > however I can still access the directories in that directory if i > specifically go into each directory. I'm thinking this is a permission > problem on c: and i've changed it a few times with no success. > > Any ideas? Sure. Please read and follow the problem reporting guidelines found here: > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html With the required information mentioned in the problem reporting guidelines, folks on this list will have better information about your problem and be better able to direct you. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/