From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25048 invoked from network); 24 Oct 2005 09:09:04 -0000 Received: from news.dotsrc.org (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (130.225.247.88) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 24 Oct 2005 09:09:04 -0000 Received: (qmail 71291 invoked from network); 24 Oct 2005 09:08:57 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 24 Oct 2005 09:08:57 -0000 Received: (qmail 18839 invoked by alias); 24 Oct 2005 09:08:48 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 9550 Received: (qmail 18820 invoked from network); 24 Oct 2005 09:08:47 -0000 Received: from news.dotsrc.org (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (130.225.247.88) by sunsite.dk with SMTP; 24 Oct 2005 09:08:47 -0000 Received: (qmail 70151 invoked from network); 24 Oct 2005 09:08:47 -0000 Received: from cluster-c.mailcontrol.com (HELO rly21c.srv.mailcontrol.com) (168.143.177.190) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 24 Oct 2005 09:08:46 -0000 Received: from exchange03.csr.com (mailhost1.csr.com [81.105.217.43]) by rly21c.srv.mailcontrol.com (MailControl) with ESMTP id j9O98gCr031893 for ; Mon, 24 Oct 2005 10:08:45 +0100 Received: from news01 ([10.103.143.38]) by exchange03.csr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Mon, 24 Oct 2005 10:10:58 +0100 Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 10:08:47 +0100 From: Peter Stephenson To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk Subject: Re: Named directory pointing to a symbolic link Message-Id: <20051024100847.07958ddb.pws@csr.com> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Cambridge Silicon Radio X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.12 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 24 Oct 2005 09:10:58.0921 (UTC) FILETIME=[D90F8590:01C5D87A] X-Scanned-By: MailControl A-05-40-01 (www.mailcontrol.com) on 10.67.0.131 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.4 (2005-06-05) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.0.4 Jean Chalard wrote: > 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 as far > as I understand) has a strange behaviour : it points on /nonexistent > when used as a named directory, and any attempt I do to have it point > elsewhere with the export builtin doesn't work when the variable is > used as a named directory, though it works when invoked as hash -d. > Other variable names don't seem to behave that way. Do you have NIS (Yellow Pages) on your system? I've seen some odd things when trying to extract home directories from that which I've never tracked down. This message has been scanned for viruses by BlackSpider MailControl - www.blackspider.com