>And plain "alias"? Nothing dealing with ls. This problem happens with root and another user that I became by using su - <username> (as root).
>What does: > > ln -s /foo bah > set -vx;ls -l bah; /bin/ls -l bah;set +vx + ls -l bah total 3211932 lrwxrwxrwx 1 brown users 4 Mar 1 16:54 bah -> /foo + /bin/ls -l bah total 3211932 lrwxrwxrwx 1 brown users 4 Mar 1 16:54 bah -> /foo + set +vx mkdir /foo set -vx;ls -la bah; /bin/ls -la bah;set +vx + ls -la bah total 0 drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 1 16:55 . drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Mar 1 16:55 .. + /bin/ls -la bah total 0 drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 1 16:55 . drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Mar 1 16:55 .. + set +vx MB -- e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /~\ The ASCII [I'm just the one who beat him off... Repelled him] \ / Ribbon Campaign [would perhaps be the better phrase. Spike 2/18/03] X Against Visit - URL: http://vidiot.com/ / \ HTML Email -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list