I have a strange problem with a file that i cannot move, remove ,
rename, kill or demolish.
Here is what i get when doing a ls -al in the / dir
b---r-S--T 1 29295 28257 102, 47 Jun 20 2034 tmp
Effectivly what this is doing is not letting me run any of the programs
that i need to. The last thing that was done on the machine, before it
broke is the owner was using ELM to read mail from /var/spool/mail/"user"
and deleting the large mail messages that would be too large to download
via a modem.
On opening one of the files, he got an error and he then tried to forward
that message to himself and broke the server. He rebooted it and "great
joy" the machine was totally *skrewed*. I have attemted various things,
like mounting the Hard Drive on another syste running Redhat 5.2 and using
the Redhat 5.0 Boot disks. I need to have the server running and because i
do not know who set it up i cannot rebuild the server on another machine.
Any help will be greatly appreciated
Thank You
Tony Wade
Junior System Administrator
Dockside Internet
Cape Town
+27 21 405 9800
dingbat@dockside.co.za
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