On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 02:39:04PM -0400, Wesley A. Wannemacher wrote: > Help (if it is not too much trouble). > > I have a Linux machine that has been recently > rooted. I have found many strange things on the > hard drive of the server. when doing an 'ls -la' > in the /dev folder I see the following: > > drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 34816 Sep 1 14:27 . > drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 1024 Sep 1 14:34 .. > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 Jul 15 11:22 .. > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 26450 Apr 17 1999 MAKEDEV > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1598 Apr 19 1999 MAKEDEV.ibcs > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Jun 11 1999 X0R -> null > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Jun 11 1999 arp -> inet/arp > crw-rw-r-- 1 root root 10, 3 May 5 1998 atibm > crw-r--r-- 1 root sys 14, 4 Apr 17 1999 audio > > Why is there an extra '..'? There was also a > '...', but I have deleted it. How should I go > about deleting the extra '..'? I am kinda new, > so any help is appreciated, I can post any other > information needed. I would guess that one of the ..s infact is ".. " or some such (i.e. two dots followed by white-space), observe: [sune@sune:/home/sune]$mkdir ".. " [sune@sune:/home/sune]$cd ".. " /home/sune/.. [sune@sune:/home/sune/.. ]$cd .. [sune@sune:/home/sune]$ls -ld . ..* drwxr-xr-x 75 sune sune 4096 Sep 1 20:53 ./ drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Aug 30 00:21 ../ drwxrwxr-x 2 sune sune 4096 Sep 1 20:53 .. / [sune@sune:/home/sune]$rmdir ".. " If that trailing slash had not been there it would have looked similar to what you found in /dev. Regards, -- Sune Kirkeby | "Imagine, if you will, that there were no http://mel.interspace.dk/~sune/ | such thing as a hypothetical situation..."
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