[Gllug] Root doesn't have permission

[Mike Brodbelt]

On Sun, 2002-03-03 at 00:29, Roger Whittaker wrote:
> Definitely not nfs mounted, and nothing relevant in /var/log/messages that
> I can see.
> 

The normal thing that I've seen cause root to get permission denied
errors from ls is directories with messed up permissions. The ls -l
command attempts to descend into directories to list their contents, and
if there are directories present which do not have the executable bits
set on them, you'll throw up a permission denied when ls tries to
descend into them.

Try "file *" which should show you whether they are directories, and if
so, you should be able to chmod +x them.

Mike.


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