Hi folks. A search of the archives suggests to me that the following message was never posted:
On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: > Hello All. > > I'm running hamm (unstable) on a PC at home, and I somehow ended up with > some apparently corrupted files. I am unable to figure out how to delete > them, and dpkg pukes when trying to upgrade the relevant packages. Here's > are some examples (using 'ls -l'): > > br-xr-Sr-- 1 27695 29285 51, 46 Mar 28 2031 ChangeLog.gz > cr-SrwS-wT 1 28265 25203 99, 114 May 9 2031 INSTALL.gz > cr-sr-sr-- 1 28531 26988 104, 46 Aug 16 2027 changelog.Debian.gz > c--SrwS-wT 1 11824 26207 114, 115 Jan 15 2034 copyright > > I don't understand the permissions or the ownership and group attributes. > I cannot do anything with them using rm, chown, or chgrp. Please help. > And, please cc to me as I am not currently subscribed to debian-user. > > > Thanks. Syrus. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Syrus Nemat-Nasser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> UCSD Physics Dept. -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]