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From: Paul English <penglish@hydro.washington.edu>
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Subject: Re: Removing wierd file
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On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Micheal Patterson wrote:

> > One of my former users has a strange file in her directory and I can't
> > remove, chown or chmod it as root.
> >
> > ls -l
> > total 0
> > -rwxrws--T  1 1708453043  4187987649  0 Oct  9  2001 10009_dir
> >
> > It was created over nfs by arcinfo running on a Sun machine. I have no
> > idea why it would have those permissions, let alone the invalied UID/GID.
> >
> > Suggestions anyone?
> >
> > Paul
> >
>
> I'm guessing that you're already tried to chown it to root and chmoding it
> before trying to remove the file?

Yup, tried that. as well as rm "Oct  9  2001 10009_dir." I'll have to try
the fsck next when I have an opportunity to bring the machine down.

Paul