Re: strange file ...??

Robert L Harris (nomad@rocky.orci.com)
Mon, 22 Sep 1997 16:05:13 -0600 (MDT)


>
> hello all
>
> today i found a stange file on my system, i cant erase file, cant
> change mode, cant change owner, i cant do anything with it (and i'm in
> root) so there is info about this files, hope someone have any idea what
> to do with it, i want to delete it, cause my tape backup tell me it's
> 932Megs file, but when i do df, i have only 540 megs uses, and my HD have
> 1.2 gigs ;-)
> there is the info when i do ls -al this file is supposed to be a text
> file, and i cant edit it with joe or vi...
>
> c---rw-r-- 28773 2605 21295 56, 48 Dec 28 1993 pserver.log.970903
>
> really strange, i never saw this before
>
> i really need help for get off this files ;-)
>
> in regard
> Daniel provencher

It looks to me like that's a character device. Have you tried to chmod
it or chown it? Try chown root.users <path>pserver.log.970903 then
chmod it. Once you've done it, try to remove it.

Robert

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