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Re: Can't delete or modify file



On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 05:12:33PM +0200, Marcin Sochacki wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 10:00:02AM -0400, Robert Brown wrote:
> > I tried to update my debian box which is running Potato.  When libc6 tries to
> > install it fails giving an error about not being able to symlink libnss_db.so.2.
> > I took a look at libnss_db.so.2 and things are very odd.  A 'ls -la' gives the
> > following:
> > 
> > br-xr-S-wx    1 22304    8236     105, 114 Oct 23  2030 libnss_db.so.2
> > 
> > I've tried to delete, rename, chown and chmod with out any luck.  What should I
> > do?  I can't even find out what 'S' as a permission is.  Any help would be
> > greatly appreciated.
> 
> man chattr

Or maybe better fsck.

The 'b' means it's a block special device file. The 'S' means the
same as 's', but without the corresponding 'x' bit set.

regards

Marcin
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