I would carefully examine environment. Is dist aliased to something? it 
appears that it is aliased to /usr/src/sys/dist. It also appears that it 
is csh/tcsh related. Look what initialization files they use and grep in 
all of them for dist.

Regards,
Alex


Andy Ruhl wrote:
> Can anyone explain this? This doesn't happen on my i386 box. Maybe I'm
> just dense and I'm missing something:
> 
> root@taz:/root # ls
> .cshrc              .klogin             .profile            
> dmesg.current.out
> .cshrc.good         .login              .shrc               pkgpath
> .cvspass            .lsof_taz           .ssh
> root@taz:/root # cd dist
> /usr/src/sys/dist
> root@taz:/usr/src/sys/dist # pwd
> /usr/src/sys/dist
> root@taz:/usr/src/sys/dist # ls
> CVS    acpica ipf    pf
> root@taz:/usr/src/sys/dist #
> 
> What the heck? This works from any directory. I just do "cd dist" as
> root, and there I go. I logged out and back in and it still works.
> 
> Doesn't work with bash, but does work with tcsh and regular csh. I'm
> normally using tcsh. I noticed cd was aliased to something, so I
> commented that out and restarted the shell, but still the same
> results. Again, this doesn't happen on my i386 machine.
> 
> Weird. But then again, it's entirely possible that I'm missing something.
> 
> Andy
>