Re: Circular directory references (was re: ext2 file too big...)

2001-11-27 Thread Alan Shutko
"Chad C.Walstrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Actually, I should give you more background than this. These are not > symbolic links. This is a screwed up ext2 filesystem. There was either > a runaway sendmail process or a runaway mailman process that dumped some > nasties into /var. I'm seei

Re: Circular directory references (was re: ext2 file too big...)

2001-11-27 Thread dman
On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 02:44:41PM -0600, Chad C.Walstrom wrote: | On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 03:26:31PM -0500, dman wrote: | > ls -ld | > | > to find out which is a symlink and which is a real directory, then | > remove the symlinks (if you really don't want them). | > | > It is not possible to hav

Re: Circular directory references (was re: ext2 file too big...)

2001-11-27 Thread Chad C.Walstrom
On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 03:26:31PM -0500, dman wrote: > ls -ld > > to find out which is a symlink and which is a real directory, then > remove the symlinks (if you really don't want them). > > It is not possible to have a hard link to a directory, so they must be > symlinks. Actually, I should g

Re: Circular directory references (was re: ext2 file too big...)

2001-11-27 Thread dman
On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 02:11:01PM -0600, Chad C.Walstrom wrote: | On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 09:33:46AM -, madhu wrote: | > | > [EMAIL PROTECTED] blah]# > /var/lib/mailman/data will empty the file. | | Ack... You know what it is. Circular directory references! Ugh. | There's a bunch of them

Circular directory references (was re: ext2 file too big...)

2001-11-27 Thread Chad C.Walstrom
On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 09:33:46AM -, madhu wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] blah]# > /var/lib/mailman/data will empty the file. Ack... You know what it is. Circular directory references! Ugh. There's a bunch of them all over the partition. How do I get rid of them? -- Chad Walstrom <[EMAI