Removing wierd file

Paul English penglish at hydro.washington.edu
Fri Apr 23 12:50:43 PDT 2004



On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Warren Block wrote:

> On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Paul English wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Warren Block wrote:
> > >
> > > Does ls -lo show anything unusual?
> >
> > Nothing that makes any sense to me, but that is not a flag I usually use:
> >
> > ls -lo
> > total 0
> > -rwxrws--T  1 1708453043  4187987649  sappnd,uappnd 0 Oct  9  2001 10009_dir
>
> So 'chflags nosappnd,nouappnd "thatweirdname"' should clear them, if
> they are the problem.  Haven't seen them on anything, but I haven't
> looked, either.

It worked! Once I did chflags as above, the file responded to "rm" quite
nicely.

Thanks!

Paul



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