file permissions

Andrew Morgan morgan at orst.edu
Wed Oct 8 13:38:03 EDT 2003



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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