Date: Sun, 29 Oct 1995 10:37:11 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: u923168@student.canberra.edu.au (Gasparovski / Daniel) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com Subject: Re: netscape 2.0b1 fouls directory Message-ID: <199510290937.KAA12945@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.951029194627.3849A-100000@student.canberra.edu.au> from "Gasparovski / Daniel" at Oct 29, 95 07:50:57 pm
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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. ;-)
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