From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Oct 29 02:05:09 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id CAA10819 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 29 Oct 1995 02:05:09 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id CAA10801 for ; Sun, 29 Oct 1995 02:04:58 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id KAA05128; Sun, 29 Oct 1995 10:47:01 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA11054; Sun, 29 Oct 1995 10:46:33 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id KAA12945; Sun, 29 Oct 1995 10:37:11 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199510290937.KAA12945@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: netscape 2.0b1 fouls directory To: u923168@student.canberra.edu.au (Gasparovski / Daniel) Date: Sun, 29 Oct 1995 10:37:11 +0100 (MET) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from "Gasparovski / Daniel" at Oct 29, 95 07:50:57 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 906 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Gasparovski / Daniel wrote: > > > > Which user did you do this as? Please elaborate on the part where you > > say "cannot be rm'd" Thanks! > > > Then tried to cd to .foo, works.. now say ls and it returns: > > > ls: .: No such file or directory > The *exact* same thing happened to me. I rebooted into single user mode, > fsck'd the partition, and it removed the directory. When I ran Netscape > again, it worked as normal. It probably only stuffs thing up when > "upgrading" the old .netscape files. > > This was done as "root". Uuuuuuuh. Does netscape perchance attempt to hard link directories when run as root? This "feature" used to be disabled in 1.1.5.1, but it's been sneaking in again with the advent of 4.4BSDLite. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)