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Date:      Wed, 29 Sep 1999 11:23:57 -0500 (CDT)
From:      mhughes@logroad.bridge.com (Michael Hughes)
To:        ken@osicom.net (Ken Blundell)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: A Weird File Problem
Message-ID:  <199909291623.LAA11714@logroad.bridge.com>
In-Reply-To: <000801bf0a93$ef002e60$1967eccf@osicom.net> from "Ken Blundell" at Sep 29, 1999 12:01:46 PM

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Ken,
  Do a ls -B, I think you will find that the file has now printable charactor
in the file name.

Ken Blundell said in email to me:
> 
> Hello,
> I've never run into this before.  It looks like a weird file problem.
> I'm running FreeBSD 2.2.2.
> Someone decided to mess up my server and now I cannot delete a couple of
> files.
> There is a file in the /etc dir.
> -rw-------  1 root  wheel      31243 Sep 29 00:14 gay
> If I try to do a rm on the file this is what I get back:
> # rm gay
> rm: gay: No such file or directory
> #
> What an I doing wong??
> 
> Also there is a multiple listing for the master.passwd file:
> -rw-------  1 root  wheel      30615 Sep 29 11:37 master.passwd
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel         95 Sep 29 00:19 master.passwd
> Should there be two entries?  If not, how do I get rid of one of them?
> 
> Thanks for any help.
>     Ken.
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