A server in my department has suddenly created (or altered) some files and I cannot figure out how to remove them. Below is the a part of the original note sent to me and I have tried various attempts to remove the files as weel with no avail. I even went to the point of creating a user with uid 28757 but that did not help either. One thing that isn't mentioned below is that when the I tried to remove the files the kernel stated "operation not permitted" rather than the usual permissions stuff. Any ideas how I can get rid of these files?
-- Colin Telmer, Institute of Intergovernmental Relations School of Policy Studies Building, Room 309, Queen's University Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7L-3N6 (613)545-6000x4219 <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://terrapin.econ.queensu.ca> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 11:29:40 -0400 (EDT) From: "James G. MacKinnon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Colin R. Telmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "James G. Mackinnon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: frisch On Fri, 24 Oct 1997, Colin R. Telmer wrote: > Unmounted /home without any problems and ran e2fsck with the "check for > bad blocks" and "force" options. However, the disk seems to be fine. > Strange. Here are the key parts of the original note: There are several directories that are claimed (by du) to be absurdly big: 501597058 ./reevesj/.netscape/cache/13 634965987 . 1017117464 ./reevesj/.netscape/cache 1017117572 ./reevesj/.netscape 1017168521 ./reevesj Of course, those numbers are not correct! Looking more closely at /reevesj/.netscape/cache, one finds: br--r-srwx 1 28787 29728 73, 60 May 21 2025 07 Notice the date and the permissions! Whatever this is, I cannot remove it, even using "rm -f", as root! I also cannot change the permissions. Then, within the directory /reevesj/.netscape/cache/13, one finds: c---rwxr-t 1 24942 28192 60, 62 Jan 25 2026 cache340259B30115B9F pr-s-wxr-- 1 31558 11396 0 Jan 13 1983 cache340259B30125B9F.gif p-ws-wx-wx 1 6019 23682 0 Jan 31 1940 cache343150330010C49.gif Notice the dates! Again, it seems to be impossible to remove these or change the permissions. Cheers, James. James G. MacKinnon Department of Economics phone: 613 545-2293 Queen's University Fax: 613 545-6668 Kingston, Ontario, Canada Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] K7L 3N6 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .