Permission denied

[delboy]

Getting "permission denied" when I try as root to access /usr/ports.
During installation I said yes to installing The Ports Collection,and I want to see if the files are there.I think I am using the wrong code,could anyone tell me the right way.
Further reading of the BSD handbook says it is better to install the Ports Collection from the internet rather than the cd,which I did,any thoughts on that.

[PatrickBaer]

cd /usr
ls -la

What does it tell you?

[delboy]

PatrickBaer.

output from ls -la
$ cd /usr
$ ls -la
total 58
drwxr-xr-x 17 root wheel 512 May 22 11:12 .
drwxr-xr-x 20 root wheel 512 May 23 20:12 ..
drwxrwxr-x 2 root operator 512 May 22 15:36 .snap
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 10 May 22 10:35 X11R6 -> /usr/local
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 7168 May 22 10:36 bin
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 May 22 10:48 compat
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 May 22 10:31 games
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 May 22 11:12 home
drwxr-xr-x 47 root wheel 4608 Feb 24 21:18 include
drwxr-xr-x 6 root wheel 10752 Feb 24 21:18 lib
drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 512 Feb 24 21:18 libdata
drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 1536 Feb 24 21:18 libexec
drwxr-xr-x 13 root wheel 512 May 22 10:34 local
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 May 22 10:41 obj
drwxr-xr-x 69 root wheel 1536 May 22 10:32 ports
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 5120 May 22 10:29 sbin
drwxr-xr-x 26 root wheel 512 May 22 10:31 share
drwxr-xr-x 23 root wheel 512 May 22 10:32 src

[Carpetsmoker]

What command did you use?

[delboy]

Carpetsmoker

# cd /usr
# /usr/ports

[Carpetsmoker]

You need to type "cd", now you're trying to execute a directory ... Which doesn't work, this should work: % cd /usr/ports

If you are using tcsh you can use implicitcd option ("set implicitcd" in ~/.tcshrc) so you don't have to type "cd", from tcsh(1)

      implicitcd (+)
               If set, the shell treats a directory name typed as a command as
               though  it  were a request to change to that directory.  If set
               to verbose, the change of directory is echoed to  the  standard
               output.   This  behavior  is inhibited in non-interactive shell
               scripts, or for  command  strings  with  more  than  one  word.
               Changing directory takes precedence over executing a like-named
               command, but it is done after alias substitutions.   Tilde  and
               variable expansions work as expected.

[delboy]

Carpetsmoker.

Using % cd /usr/ports just presents me with another command prompt.

[Carpetsmoker]

Yes, you can use % pwd to check which directory you're in:

% cd /usr/ports/
% pwd
/usr/ports

You can add this to your ~/.tcshrc to show the current directory in the prompt:

set prompt = "[%~]%% "  # Show current dir.

[18Googol2]

Originally Posted by Carpetsmoker

If you are using tcsh you can use implicitcd option ("set implicitcd" in ~/.tcshrc) so you don't have to type "cd", from tcsh(1)

Im pretty sure all popular shells can be configured to let user navigate dir without `cd`, but personally I dont think its a good practice

[delboy]

Carpetsmoker.

Finally got it,thanks for all your help.

[TerryP]

zsh can and afaik does by default, never knew tcsh had an implicitcd option but i never bothered to customize it that much (tcsh/zsh == my most used shells).

it's bad practice imho to rely on it but it is a nice feature if you forget to type the command -- assuming you meant to change directories in the first place.

[Carpetsmoker]

Originally Posted by 18Googol2

Im pretty sure all popular shells can be configured to let user navigate dir without `cd`, but personally I dont think its a good practice

Well, tcsh is the only shell I'm familiar with, and since it's the FreeBSD default I think it's safe to assume that delboy's using tcsh...

In any case, I don't see why it's bad practice ...
One disadvantage would be:

% mkdir vi
% vi
% pwd
/home/carpetsmoker/vi