Re: Unable to delete files with strange ownership and permissions.
Hi folks. A search of the archives suggests to me that the following
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On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote:
> Hello All.
>
> I'm running hamm (unstable) on a PC at home, and I somehow ended up with
> some apparently corrupted files. I am unable to figure out how to delete
> them, and dpkg pukes when trying to upgrade the relevant packages. Here's
> are some examples (using 'ls -l'):
>
> br-xr-Sr-- 1 27695 29285 51, 46 Mar 28 2031 ChangeLog.gz
> cr-SrwS-wT 1 28265 25203 99, 114 May 9 2031 INSTALL.gz
> cr-sr-sr-- 1 28531 26988 104, 46 Aug 16 2027 changelog.Debian.gz
> c--SrwS-wT 1 11824 26207 114, 115 Jan 15 2034 copyright
>
> I don't understand the permissions or the ownership and group attributes.
> I cannot do anything with them using rm, chown, or chgrp. Please help.
> And, please cc to me as I am not currently subscribed to debian-user.
>
>
> Thanks. Syrus.
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Syrus Nemat-Nasser <syrus@ucsd.edu> UCSD Physics Dept.
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