unremoveable file

[Tim Ferrell <tjferrell@infoave.net>]

I am in the process of upgrading to libc6 *sigh* which is proving to be
somewhat of a challenge... anyhow, in the process I have found
something rather strange. Somehow /etc/mail has been changed from a
directory to a block device that I cannot get rid of! Here is the
listing: 

br-xr-x-wx   1 22871    21811     89, 117 Jul 26  2027 /etc/mail

I cannot remove it: I cannot chown it. Any ideas?? Also, when I try to
acces any man pages groff dies complaining it cannot find a DESC file.
What's up with that? All worked fine before... 

Oh, in case it helps, here is a list of hamm packages I have installed:

bash_2.01-5.deb            libgdbm1_1.7.3-22.deb
comerr2g_1.10-9.deb        libgdbmg1_1.7.3-21.deb
dpkg-dev_1.4.0.19.deb      libreadline2_2.1-7.deb
dpkg-ftp_1.4.9.deb         libreadlineg2_2.1-7.deb
dpkg_1.4.0.19.deb          ncurses3.0_1.9.9e-2.deb
e2fslibsg_1.10-9.deb       ncurses3.4_1.9.9g-7.deb
ldso_1.9.6-2.deb           xlib6g_3.3.1-2.deb
libc6-dev_2.0.5c-0.1.deb   libc6_2.0.5c-0.1.deb
libg++272_2.7.2.8-0.1.deb  
data-dumper_2.07-1.deb     mailtools_1.09-1.deb
dpkg-perl_0.1-2.deb        perl-base_5.004.04-3.deb
libcgi-perl_2.76-3.deb     perl-debug_5.004.04-3.deb
libmime-perl_3.204-1.deb   perl-suid_5.004.04-3.deb
libnet-perl_1.0502-1.deb   perl-tk_400.202-9.deb
libwww-perl_5.17-1.deb     perl_5.004.04-3.deb

Thanks...

Tim



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