From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 18 16:59:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA26655 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 16:59:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tshansen.reshall.ucsd.edu (tshansen.reshall.ucsd.edu [128.54.173.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA26612 for ; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 16:59:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from taco@tshansen.reshall.ucsd.edu) Received: from localhost (taco@localhost) by tshansen.reshall.ucsd.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id QAA01932; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 16:59:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from taco@tshansen.reshall.ucsd.edu) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 16:59:17 -0800 (PST) From: "Todd 'Taco' Hansen" Reply-To: taco@mad.scientist.com To: Doug White cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wierd files appearing in my directory structure In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG thanks. I will look into my login scripts. btw, the commands you gave me to remove the files don't work. Which seems wierd to me. Here is there output. jaguar: {4} rm ?000* rm: illegal option -- 0 usage: rm [-f | -i] [-dPRr] file ... jaguar: {5} rm "-000277" rm: illegal option -- 0 usage: rm [-f | -i] [-dPRr] file ... jaguar: {6} thanks. -taco > > --------------------- > > -rw------- 1 taco wheel 226 Jan 17 01:10 -000224 > > -rw------- 1 taco wheel 226 Jan 22 18:41 -000238 > > -rw------- 1 taco wheel 226 Jan 22 14:06 -000241 > > Those look like lost inodes or a script file gone nuts. You can probably > remove them if you quote the filename or use a wildcard. > > rm ?000* > > The times look like login times -- can you find a relation there? > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > > > > -- "Hey! Who took the cork off my lunch??!" -- W. C. Fields Todd Hansen, KD6YPS http://sehplib.ucsd.edu/~tshansen/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message