From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 18 12:00:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA27665 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 12:00:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA27609 for ; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 11:59:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA13879; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 11:59:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 11:59:11 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: taco@mad.scientist.com cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wierd files appearing in my directory structure In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Todd 'Taco' Hansen wrote: > I have been watching the list for a while and no one has talked about > this, nor was it on the archives. I am running 2.2.5-RELEASE which I > installed from scratch as opposed to upgrading for the 5th time. (it help > to give me more diskspace by removing old programs that I didn't use). > Anyway, for some reason I am getting file entries in my directories. I > have included a dir listing below. I have tried to open them / delete them > but their file names are so peculair that I can't get any program to find > them. Anyway, I was wondering what these files were doing here and if they > are there on purpose or a problem with my fs. Thanks guys, can't wait for > 2.2.6. > -taco > > P.S. - it doesn't occur on any of the other systems that I have installed > (mostly 2.2.5). It also doesn't occur in all of my directories. If you are > unsure of what they are, do you have any ideas how to remove them? > > --------------------- > -rw------- 1 taco wheel 226 Jan 17 01:10 -000224 > -rw------- 1 taco wheel 226 Jan 22 18:41 -000238 > -rw------- 1 taco wheel 226 Jan 22 14:06 -000241 Those look like lost inodes or a script file gone nuts. You can probably remove them if you quote the filename or use a wildcard. rm ?000* The times look like login times -- can you find a relation there? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message