From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 26 7: 7:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 689B237B400 for ; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 07:07:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sage-one.net (adsl-65-71-135-137.dsl.crchtx.swbell.net [65.71.135.137]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 997A143E4A for ; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 07:07:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jackstone@sage-one.net) Received: from sagea (sagea [192.168.0.3]) by sage-one.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g6QE7MB00857 for ; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 09:07:22 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from jackstone@sage-one.net) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20020726090726.03029918@mail.sage-one.net> X-Sender: jackstone@mail.sage-one.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 09:07:26 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: "Jack L. Stone" Subject: Mystery "-p" file Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Running FBSD 4.5-RELEASE. I've discovered a mystery file "-p" in my /root directory of a server that contains 35M. I don't know how it got there, but when I try to remove it, I get errors: ========================== root@asafeserver>> rm -p rm: illegal option -- p usage: rm [-f | -i] [-dPRrvW] file ... unlink file ========================== ...and just a listing: root@asafeserver>> ll -p ls: illegal option -- p usage: ls [-ABCFGHLPRTWabcdfgiklnoqrstu1] [file ...] ========================== Apparently the "file" is linked, so I'm all the more puzzled and concerned. How can I find out what it is linked to? ...and what/why it is there in the first place...??? BTW, the file is time-stamped Jan 25 2002.... shame on me that it took this long to see it.... but have been wondering what was taking up so much room in "/" versus other servers. In doing a listing, I just didn't look up high enough to see the file which resides at the top and offscreen. Thanks for any ideas about this.... and a safe way to remove it...??? Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Administrator SageOne Net http://www.sage-one.net jackstone@sage-one.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message