i suggest running an e2fsck on the drive there may be errors in the filesystem
nate On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Ron Rademaker wrote: ron > ron >Last week I've send a mail about a weird file, that should be a directory ron >but it was a character device. (/usr/X11R6/include/X11/fonts). It also had ron >weird permissions: ron > ron > c---r----- 1 8224 10280 49, 117 Dec 1 2031 fonts ron > ron >Now I'm trying to remove this file, the system won't allow me (yes ron >ofcourse I'm root). I've also tried rm -f. ron >I've tried to chown the 'file'/'character device' to root and a chmod, the ron >only thing I get to see is Operation not permitted. ron > ron >Any suggestions??? ron > ron >Ron ron > ron > ron >-- ron >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null ron > ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 7:21am up 150 days, 19:24, 2 users, load average: 0.27, 0.29, 0.33