> Things seem to be getting worse. I originally discovered the problem > because a routine upgrade of procps failed because it could not make a > link to /bin/ps. I eventually found that it was due to the "i" flag on > that file. I removed the flag and it then worked. However, last night I > found that the flag had returned. I removed it again. > > Today, I found that upgrading procps failed again, this time because it > was unable to create /bin/kill. But /bin/kill does not have the "i" flag > set. So it definitely seems that something strange is happening.
Anthony, try using grep -r to find out if there's some ordinary boot or cron script that's doing this stuff. For example, grep -r chattr /etc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]