On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 09:34:05PM -0000, Ted Harding wrote:
which is all as it should be! I can also, as root, 'cd funny-dir', and again things look normal from inside funny-dir.
Can anyone say (a) What's going on? (b) How best to fix it?
Can you not copy the files as root to another directory and then change the permissions? Even then have you tried changing the permissions on the directory to see what happens (suggest you try the first step before the second!).
Adam