[H-GEN] Strange linux file permissions

[Snowy Angelique Maslov aka 'Snowpony']

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On Sun, 19 Oct 2003, Robert Brockway wrote:

> Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 10:52:23 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Robert Brockway <robert at timetraveller.org>
> Reply-To: general at lists.humbug.org.au
> To: general at lists.humbug.org.au
> Subject: Re: [H-GEN] Strange linux file permissions
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> On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 johannes at paradise.net.nz wrote:
> 
> > Has anyone ever seen an ls -la output like below? I have absolutely no
> > clue as to how those entries came to life in such a way.
> >
> > ?rwsrwsrwt  65535 4294967295 4294967295 4294967295 Jan  1  1970
> > KonqViewIface.cc
> > ?rwsrwsrwt  65535 4294967295 4294967295 4294967295 Jan  1  1970
> > KonqViewIface.h
> 
> Damn, looks like a filesystem problem to me. Umount the filesystem and
> fsck it.  If it is the root filesystem then drop the box to single user
> with a read-only root filesystem and do the same (or boot from CD to do
> the fsck).

I'd concur with this; one thing to know in that entry is that everything seems 
to have been set to their maximums.   It would be interesting to actually pull 
up the inode information for the current directly and see what it is actually 
made up of - I'm guessing you would find a lot of 0xffs...

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