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Directory is invisible in listing but it is exist.

Hi ALL.

Can anyone help me.

Have you had a chance to experienced that when you list (ls) a directory from ordinary execution of command, you couldn't see the directory.
However, when you list it from the directory filename itself or even changing to directory (cd), it will show to you that there is an existing folder.

Sounds weird and interesting? Please see below sample or actual snapshot.....

No issues:
men:/nas> ls -ld FilterT*
drwxrwxr-x 2 user1 user1 1024 2009-03-14 16:36 FilterTools
men:/nas> ls -ld FilterTools
drwxrwxr-x 2 user1 user1 1024 2009-03-14 16:36 FilterTools

Here's the issue:
men:/nas> ls -ld CIM_SOLSUM*
/bin/ls: CIM_SOLSUM*: No such file or directory
men:/nas> ls -ld CIM_SOLSUMMARY
drwxrwxr-x 2 user1 user1 80 2009-09-19 17:46 CIM_SOLSUMMARY
men:/nas> cd CIM_SOLSUM*
-bash: cd: CIM_SOLSUM*: No such file or directory
men:/nas> cd CIM_SOLSUMMARY
men:/nas/CIM_SOLSUMMARY> ls -l
total 8
-rwxrwxr-x 1 user1 user1 130 2009-06-04 05:33 CIM_SOLSUMMARY.xml

men:/nas> uname -a
Linux sy1nas01 2.6.5-7.282-bigsmp #1 SMP Tue Aug 29 10:40:40 UTC 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Also, do you think there's an issue or has effect from NAS server?

sy1nas01:/fs/R14
113141856 100473888 12667968 89% /nas

Many thanks in advance.

The symptoms will happen if you have execute permission but not read permission on the directory

Code:

c@CW8:~$ mkdir nas

c@CW8:~$ chmod 300 nas

c@CW8:~$ mkdir nas/CIM_SOLSUMMARY

c@CW8:~$ cd nas

c@CW8:~/nas$ ls -ld CIM_SOLSUM*

ls: cannot access CIM_SOLSUM*: No such file or directory

c@CW8:~/nas$ ls -ld CIM_SOLSUMMARY

drwxr-xr-x 2 c c 4096 2009-09-23 13:48 CIM_SOLSUMMARY

c@CW8:~/nas$ cd CIM_SOLSUM*

bash: cd: CIM_SOLSUM*: No such file or directory

c@CW8:~/nas$ cd CIM_SOLSUMMARY

c@CW8:~/nas/CIM_SOLSUMMARY$

This explanation is not consistent with your "No issues" section.

Quote:

Originally Posted by catkin (Post 3693873)

The symptoms will happen if you have execute permission but not read permission on the directory

Code:

c@CW8:~$ mkdir nas

c@CW8:~$ chmod 300 nas

c@CW8:~$ mkdir nas/CIM_SOLSUMMARY

c@CW8:~$ cd nas

c@CW8:~/nas$ ls -ld CIM_SOLSUM*

ls: cannot access CIM_SOLSUM*: No such file or directory

c@CW8:~/nas$ ls -ld CIM_SOLSUMMARY

drwxr-xr-x 2 c c 4096 2009-09-23 13:48 CIM_SOLSUMMARY

c@CW8:~/nas$ cd CIM_SOLSUM*

bash: cd: CIM_SOLSUM*: No such file or directory

c@CW8:~/nas$ cd CIM_SOLSUMMARY

c@CW8:~/nas/CIM_SOLSUMMARY$

This explanation is not consistent with your "No issues" section.

Hello... thanks for the response....

the folder is a 775 permission as stated:
men:/nas> ls -ld CIM_SOLSUMMARY
drwxrwxr-x 2 user1 user1 80 2009-09-19 17:46 CIM_SOLSUMMARY

actually, other files/directories that has been uploaded including the CIM_SOLSUMMARY where visible but only that directory were not visible from the ordinary directory listing...

any help would be appreciated....

many thanks in advance....

Quote:

Originally Posted by BCJapan (Post 3695804)

the folder is a 775 permission as stated:
men:/nas> ls -ld CIM_SOLSUMMARY
drwxrwxr-x 2 user1 user1 80 2009-09-19 17:46 CIM_SOLSUMMARY

Not the CIM_SOLSUMMARY directory but its parent, as demonstarted by chmod 300 nas in my screen scrape.

But that explanation is inconsistent with this command of yours working

Code:

men:/nas> ls -ld FilterT*

Do you have any particular attributes set for the parent directory or the contents inside ?

Hi ALL.

Many thanks for all the replies. FYI.

The issue has been resolve by trying to remount the NAS Server.