-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 29 June 2003 12:14 pm, Julian Opificius wrote: > Michael, > Yes, naturally I've tried all options of rm as documented in rm --help > and man rm. > Also true of rmdir.
Ahh, it was worth a shot... > Yes I want to remove it because during the boot process I'm told there > are bad characters in the file name. > The two rogue files was originally here: > /var/log/seti//dev/log > /var/log/seti//var/loc > > Obviously that's not right. Seti is a application data directory for > my command line seti app. > > /dev/log and /var/loc are pretending to be dirctories but they're not. > I can't remove them as files or directories, but at boot time the > system tells me they're bad file names and won't let the boot continue. > When I go in to a diagnostic shell (and remount the root directory as > RW, of course) I cannot delete them. You may have already posted this info, but how about the output of: ll /path/to/file(s) lsattr /path/to/file(s) - -- - -Michael pgp key: http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/gpgkey.txt Red Hat Linux 7.{2,3}|8.0|9 in 8M of RAM: http://www.rule-project.org/en/ - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+/x0Kn/07WoAb/SsRArD/AJ9pDzivPVYChkMGxeKvBNraVlpP4QCeLDol TqJX5dX7hgN32Xz0pQOfo/s= =LlFb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
