"W. Paul Mills" wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Foster) writes: > > > I have a file /usr/lib/gnews after purging gnews from my system. The > > strange thing is that I can't even remove it as root. It has a string of > > numbers for the owner and group and properties of pr--r--r-- 0444 Does > > anyone know what this is and how to get rid of it. It is stopping me > > from installing or removing anything connected to gnews. Also it is > > 512Mbs in size. I tried to view it and I get permission denied...even as > > root. Thanks! > > Looks like a job for "debugfs". The "p" looks like a pipe, but > since it has size it cannot be a pipe. > > Paul ------------------------------------------------------- Well Thanks All. I did as suggested and ran e2fsck and it did seem to clean up the disk. and the wierd file has disappeared. I am still concerned about the posibility of a hacker but have detected no evidence of that. My skills there are very limited as it never happened before (that I know of :-)). This is the second time in 2 weeks that my disk (Woody) has behaved strangely. Any ideas besides hardening up my connection??
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