Re: zsh bug?

[Dan Nelson <dnelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In the last episode (Oct 30), possibilitybox said:
> I was using zsh in screen, in an aterm (in x, obviously.), and
> suddenly I lost tab-completion ability and the ability to run any
> command except built-ins.  When I tried to log back in I received an
> error about not being able to cd to my home directory, I may still
> have these errors in an irc log.  Root could still log in, and once
> logged in as root (using the same shell) i could not su to my user; I
> received an error about not having permissions to execute /bin/zsh. 
> Re-installing zsh from the slackware package fixed all my problems,
> but I figured that this error should be reported.  (and I'm
> interested myself to know how that happened.)

Did you at some point remove read or execute access to /?  That's the
only way I can think of that would have denied access to all
executables and your home directory at once.  I can't imagine how zsh
could be responsible.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx