From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 15 15:04:08 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id PAA01068 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 15 Mar 1995 15:04:08 -0800 Received: from sun2.nsfnet-relay.ac.uk (sun2.nsfnet-relay.ac.uk [128.86.8.45]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id PAA01058 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 1995 15:03:54 -0800 Via: uk.ac.london-guildhall.tower-unix; Wed, 15 Mar 1995 18:58:11 +0000 From: James Vaughton Message-Id: <11807.9503151854@unixa.unixa.clp.ac.uk> Subject: Re: unknown files To: kleymeer (Chris Kleymeer) , freebsd-questions (FreeBSD Questions List) Date: Wed, 15 Mar 95 18:54:43 GMT In-Reply-To: <199503151559.JAA09704@eden.telalink.net>; from "Chris Kleymeer" at Mar 15, 95 9:59 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.2 PL0] Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk |o| |o| drwxr-xr-x 17 root wheel 512 Nov 22 10:44 var |o| drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Feb 28 16:29 x11r6 |o| -rw-rw-r-- 1 root wheel 0 Mar 7 13:02 ~^s^F^E^K^~^F^C}^x^O^E^ |o| ^@^?^?^I^C^C^D^D^E^[} |o| -rw-rw-r-- 1 root wheel 0 Mar 7 13:02 ^P^C=XR^Ft^O^O^~^D3P^h^ |o| uH^B^k^M^P^P^P^O^~^D3P^h^ZU^B^C^D^D^E^@ |o| Yeah I know the problem... not too tough to get rid of though... as root do the following /bin/rm -if /* this will cause it to prompt you prior to the deletion of everything - just answer y or n... as you're not specifying the control codes there shouldn't be a problem... Hope this works... Regards, James V. vaughton@unixa.lgu.ac.uk