I just upgraded my news box to the latest rex stuff (my mirror is freshly updated every morning) and while doing so, discovered that i've had some corruption on my news spool drive sometime in the last month.
i found the following files in /var/spool/news/control: c---r----- 1 8736 30054 116, 32 Apr 4 1987 504023 cr-Sr-sr-x 1 11565 8224 32, 32 Jan 30 1987 504024 br-x-w---- 1 26740 28270 110, 105 Mar 21 2029 504027 br-xr----t 1 11891 28015 108, 101 May 22 2031 504028 br-sr-srwx 1 28193 28265 112, 45 May 22 2031 504029 c---r----- 1 28499 30068 32, 101 Mar 30 2029 504048 br-xrwS--- 1 26994 8294 101, 109 Mar 9 2029 504049 br-xrwSr-- 1 14962 28520 104, 116 Nov 26 2023 504050 BTW, this is AFTER umounting the filesystem and running e2fsck 1.06 on it. Before e2fsck, they had sizes of hundreds of megabytes or even gigabytes (not possible considering it's only a 2.5gb drive) anyway, i can't seem to delete them. if i try to delete them, i get: (news-root) [19:36:15] /var/spool/news/control# rm -f 504* rm: 504023: Operation not permitted rm: 504024: Operation not permitted rm: 504027: Operation not permitted rm: 504028: Operation not permitted rm: 504029: Operation not permitted rm: 504048: Operation not permitted rm: 504049: Operation not permitted rm: 504050: Operation not permitted chmod gets exactly the same result. Even chattr won't touch them: (news-root) [19:41:52] /var/spool/news/control# chattr -i 504* chattr 1.06, 7-Oct-96 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 chattr: No such device while reading flags on 504023 chattr: No such device while reading flags on 504024 chattr: No such device while reading flags on 504027 chattr: No such device while reading flags on 504028 chattr: No such device while reading flags on 504029 chattr: No such device while reading flags on 504048 chattr: No such device while reading flags on 504049 chattr: No such device while reading flags on 504050 lsattr says basically the same thing, and refuses to show any information about them. Anyone got any idea how i can get rid of these garbage files? btw, if it's relevant, my news box is still running linux 2.0.13...I should upgrade it to 2.0.24 i suppose. Craig -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]