From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 19 16:47:44 2004 Return-Path: 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 638F216A4CE for ; Mon, 19 Apr 2004 16:47:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from internet.potentialtech.com (h-66-167-251-6.phlapafg.covad.net [66.167.251.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 289DD43D1F for ; Mon, 19 Apr 2004 16:47:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (pa-plum1c-102.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.179.102]) by internet.potentialtech.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29A4369A71; Mon, 19 Apr 2004 19:47:43 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4084651C.70808@potentialtech.com> Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 19:47:40 -0400 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20031005 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul English References: <20040419163914.C72431-100000@dynamic.hydro.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20040419163914.C72431-100000@dynamic.hydro.washington.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removing wierd file X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 23:47:44 -0000 Paul English 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? Last time I saw anything remotely like this, I had to reboot to single-user mode and fsck the partition. Afterwards, I was able to rm the file without problem. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com