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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
Subject: Re: Named directory pointing to a symbolic link
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To: Jean Chalard <jean.chalard@gmail.com>, zsh-users@sunsite.dk
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Comments: In reply to Jean Chalard <jean.chalard@gmail.com>
 "Named directory pointing to a symbolic link" (Oct 24,  1:04pm)
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On Oct 24,  1:04pm, Jean Chalard wrote:
}
} I've run into a behaviour I wasn't expecting with named directories on
} FreeBSD.  [...]
} 
} It seems to me like the 'www' variable (which ought to be unset when I
} start the shell, it's not like it should be a special variable [...]
} 
} I can reproduce it on another FreeBSD where zsh is installed the
} vanilla way and where I don't have any configuration files.

The most obvious answer is that there really is a user named "www";
perhaps the dummy user that runs the apache httpd or some such.  Have
you tried
	grep www /etc/passwd
??