hi all

is there anybody know how to fix the problem about parent directory
hard link?

a user complained the output of a file list in user's folder looking
funny.

ls: 0653-345 ./..: Permission denied.
total 1417568
drwxrwxrwx 3 d_prod2 d_prod2 4096 Feb 21 14:52 .
-rwxrwxrwx 1 d_prod2 d_prod2 163785 Jun 12 2003 bcheck
-rwxrwxrwx 1 d_prod2 d_prod2 25764 Dec 19 2002 cclfuncs.dat
-rwxrwxrwx 1 d_prod2 d_prod2 3072 Dec 19 2002 cclfuncs.idx
-rwxrwxrwx 1 d_prod2 d_prod2 251573 Jan 15 2004 cclhelp.dat
-rwxrwxrwx 1 d_prod2 d_prod2 38836 Dec 04 2003 cclmessage.dat
-rwxrwxrwx 1 d_prod2 d_prod2 221292 Jan 15 2004 cclnews.dat
-rwxrwxrwx 1 d_prod2 d_prod2 16037 Dec 19 2002 cclparams.dat
-rwxrwxrwx 1 d_prod2 d_prod2 7168 Dec 19 2002 cclparams.idx
-rwxrwxrwx 1 d_prod2 d_prod2 322243064 Feb 21 15:05 dic.dat
-rwxrwxrwx 1 d_prod2 d_prod2 324669265 Feb 14 13:20
dic.dat_20060218
-rwxrwxrwx 1 d_prod2 d_prod2 38775808 Feb 21 15:05 dic.idx
-rwxrwxrwx 1 d_prod2 d_prod2 39352320 Feb 14 13:20
dic.idx_20060218
-rwxrwxrwx 1 d_prod2 d_prod2 33 Mar 15 1999 dummy.dat

but the root user can see different file list as the following.

total 1417576
drwxrwxrwx 3 d_prod2 d_prod2 4096 Feb 21 14:52 .
drwxrwxrwx 24 d_prod2 d_prod2 4096 Jan 16 20:11 ..
-rwxrwxrwx 1 d_prod2 d_prod2 163785 Jun 12 2003 bcheck
-rwxrwxrwx 1 d_prod2 d_prod2 25764 Dec 19 2002 cclfuncs.dat
-rwxrwxrwx 1 d_prod2 d_prod2 3072 Dec 19 2002 cclfuncs.idx
-rwxrwxrwx 1 d_prod2 d_prod2 251573 Jan 15 2004 cclhelp.dat
-rwxrwxrwx 1 d_prod2 d_prod2 38836 Dec 04 2003 cclmessage.dat
-rwxrwxrwx 1 d_prod2 d_prod2 221292 Jan 15 2004 cclnews.dat
-rwxrwxrwx 1 d_prod2 d_prod2 16037 Dec 19 2002 cclparams.dat
-rwxrwxrwx 1 d_prod2 d_prod2 7168 Dec 19 2002 cclparams.idx
-rwxrwxrwx 1 d_prod2 d_prod2 322243064 Feb 21 15:01 dic.dat
-rwxrwxrwx 1 d_prod2 d_prod2 324669265 Feb 14 13:20
dic.dat_20060218
-rwxrwxrwx 1 d_prod2 d_prod2 38775808 Feb 21 15:01 dic.idx
-rwxrwxrwx 1 d_prod2 d_prod2 39352320 Feb 14 13:20
dic.idx_20060218
-rwxrwxrwx 1 d_prod2 d_prod2 33 Mar 15 1999 dummy.dat
drwxrwxrwx 2 d_prod2 d_prod2 256 Oct 22 2003 lost+found

any idea?

thanks in advance,

Frank