From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from outbound.mailhop.org ([63.208.196.171] ident=mailnull) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1EyG3L-0003pL-00 for ; Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:08:47 -0500 Received: from 24-105-197-112.cm.mhcable.com ([24.105.197.112] helo=hhs48.com) by outbound.mailhop.org with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.51) id 1EyG3L-0007yX-DP for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:08:47 -0500 Received: from chuckh by hhs48.com with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1EyG3K-0001l8-Mt for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:08:46 -0500 X-Mail-Handler: MailHop Outbound by DynDNS X-Originating-IP: 24.105.197.112 X-Report-Abuse-To: abuse@dyndns.com (see http://www.mailhop.org/outbound/abuse.html for abuse reporting information) X-MHO-User: corcyra Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:08:46 -0500 To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: file permission problem Message-ID: <20060115220846.GA6642@hhs48.com> Mail-Followup-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 From: Charles Hallenbeck X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.6 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 22:08:48 -0000 Hi gang, Here is a puzzler. In one of my /var/log directories managed by logrotate, I have a series of files such as: check_rootkit.out.xx where the xx are numbers from 1 to 10. When I do an "ls" in that directory, I am told that stat cannot access the file with the number 8 at the end because I have no permissions. The other files in the group have permissions 0600 and are owned by root:root, and I am root when I attempt this. What can be happening here? Is there such a file or not? It does not get listed with the other similar ones, and I am not told "does not exist" when trying to access, but "no permission". I cannot chown it, or chmod it, or ls it, or of course rm it, which is what I would like to do. Has anyone seen anything like this before? Any clue how to handle this? Thanks, Chuck -- The Moon is Waning Gibbous (98% of Full) But you can still get downloads from http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh