> There was a hacker attacked my Linux box and put some files on my machine > with user number and group number cannot be seen by a common user utility > such as "userconf."
I am not familiar with any "userconf" program. If it is important to the issue at hand then you will need to educate me and provide more information. I have never heard of it. > I tried to remove the file as root, but cannot do that. Then I > tried to "chown root [filename]" It also not allow me to do it. I am > not sure whether it is a bug of chown or I missed something. If this > is not the right forum to report this. It would be greatly > appreciated if you can suggest a right forum to find answers for > this type of questions. Thanks. If you suspect that it is a bug in the utilities then this is a good forum. But if you want to generation discussion on how things work then I suggest one of the news groups such as comp.unix.misc or possibly you should read the faqs in news.answers. Also check out the utils specific faq here: http://www.gnu.org/software/fileutils/doc/faq/ If you cannot remove the file as root or change the ownership of the file as root then something sounds corrupted within your filesystem. The chown program is small enough that I don't think there are any hidden bugs there and so I really doubt it is a program bug. But it might be something else. You would need to provide more information before we would know. For are more complete bug report please generate a small case where this behavior you are seeing is illustrated. Send to the list the details of the operating system you are using and the --version output of the programs you are using. Something like the following. id uid=0(root) gid=0(root) ls -ld ./filename -rw-rw-r-- 1 bob bob 0 Feb 26 09:15 ./filename chown root:root ./filename ls -ld ./filename -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 26 09:15 ./filename chown --version chown (fileutils) 4.1 uname -a HP-UX strife B.10.20 A 9000/785 unknown And then please use a subject that somehow relates to the particular problem you are reporting. It is very hard to sort through a mailbox where every subject is 'bug' or 'help'. Thanks Bob _______________________________________________ Bug-fileutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-fileutils
