On Oct 14 2007 09:27, Mark Lord wrote:Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:On Sat, 2007-10-13 22:40:23 +0530, vignesh babu <vigneshbabu@xxxxxxxxx>No, this is perfectly normal behaviour, for when a directory
wrote:
I was surprised and did an ls -l on the files and guess what I found:Most probably, your filesystem is broken and needs a fsck.
total 0
?--------- ? ? ? ? ? fcntl.c
?--------- ? ? ? ? ? fifo.c
?--------- ? ? ? ? ? filesystems.c
?--------- ? ? ? ? ? file_table.c
?--------- ? ? ? ? ? freevxfs
So end result is that, Im not able to delete the files or change perms
or ownership even as root.
has READ permissions but not EXECUTE permissions.
Er, close.
16:02 ichi:/dev/shm > md a
16:02 ichi:/dev/shm > touch a/b
16:02 ichi:/dev/shm > chmod 644 a
16:02 ichi:/dev/shm > ls -l a
/bin/ls: cannot access a/b: Permission denied
total 0
-????????? ? ? ? ? ? b
16:02 ichi:/dev/shm > ls --version
ls (GNU coreutils) 6.9
There is a difference .. "-?????????" vs "?---------".