On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 16:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > We have an unusual problem with 'invisible' and disappearing files: some files are > not > visible in a directory using 'find' or 'ls' on the directory, yet they > are visible using tools such as 'debugfs' or if you know the actual name > of the file, you can use 'ls' to list it explicitly. > > For instance, in the directory: > > /home/stampy/queues/sendsyphonemailqstore/q_dispatch > > you can ls -la it, and find no files: > > > stampy:~# ls -la /home/stampy/queues/sendsyphonemailqstore/q_dispatch > total 8 > drwxr-sr-x 2 louisb staff 4096 Jun 25 11:45 . > drwxr-sr-x 7 louisb staff 4096 Jan 4 14:05 .. > > Yet when you 'ls' the files directly (which we find from the log of a > daemon that places them there), they are there: > > stampy:~# ls -la > /home/stampy/queues/sendsyphonemailqstore/q_dispatch/1088004896841 > -rw-r--r-- 1 louisb staff 1 Jun 24 01:34 > /home/stampy/queues/sendsyphonemailqstore/q_dispatch/1088004896841 > stampy:~# >
Very bizarre. I see that when you do an ls, the following line has: total 8 So it appears there are actually 8 files in that directory. Perhaps there is a file with a very strange character in it, which is causing ls to terminate? Why not try: find q_dispatch -print >/tmp/files.txt then use "od -cx" to see what is really in that dir listing? Look in particular for an "empty line", which might indicate a problem. The "od" program is used to handling any sort of input, so you will definitely see everything generated by find. You might also want to try rm -i * to "interactively" select files for deleting. I have found this useful in the past when a file with a bizarre name needs to be deleted. Cheers, Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
