unable to create any directory that uses numbers as thedirectory name

[Cameron Simpson]

On 21Sep2007 17:27, Madan Thapa <madan.feedback at gmail.com> wrote:
| To Mike Keary...........
| 
| root at server1 [~]# echo $SHELL
| /bin/bash
| root at server1 [~]# echo $LANG
| en_US.UTF-8
| root at server1 [~]#

Weird. What about this:

  /bin/pwd      # note, _not_ just "pwd" - bash can lie
  df -h .       # shows filesystem for current directory
  mount         # shows type and mount options for same
  ls -ld .      # shows permissions on current dir
  id            # show who you are, to check against permissions

Cheers,
-- 
Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au> DoD#743
http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/