Re: file permissions

From: Andrew Morgan (no email)
Date: Wed Oct 08 2003 - 13:38:03 EDT


On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Dan Bishop wrote:

> I am trying to delete files from a user directory, but can't. Here are
> the file attributes, my attempted commands, and the results:
> ls -al
> total 124356467
> drwx----- 2 cyrus cyrus 4096 Oct 6 15:47
> drwx----- 3 cyrus cyrus 4096 Oct 6 15:47
> ?r--r-S--T 1893 1891 4294967295 Dec 6 1973 127.
> ?4--r-S--T 1901 1903 4294967295 Dec 6 1973 128.
>
> The files I want to delete are 127. and 128. When I type rm -r 127. I get:
> rm: cannot unlink '127.': Operation not pemitted
>
> I have tried to rename the files:
> mv: 127.: unknown file type
>
> I have tried chmod 777 127.
> chmod: 127.: Operation not permitted
>
> Any help out there? These are (were) email messages, so I hope I am not
> posting to the wrong list.

Sounds like file system corruption to me... Have you ran an fsck on this
file system since you noticed this?

        Andy








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