On Saturday 17 November 2001 20:56, Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 03:42:40PM -0500, Rafe B. wrote: > > A certain text file has become un-editable > > and "invisible" to 'cat.' > > > > Doing 'ls -al' on this file reveals that it > > has attribute 's' in the permissions string, > > eg: > > > > srwxr-xr-x > > according to the fine find manual that's for a socket special file, > it has nothing to do with suid-bits as an other poster suggested. > I fear that somo bozo program opened a socket with that name and > overwrote your text file.
yes, it's a socket. my mistake.
