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Re: [1/2OT] how to delete ??? file



Hi Lina,

Am Freitag, 18. Januar 2013 schrieb lina:
>  > Where is that directory located? In your home directory?
> 
> Yes, in my home directory. The path is /home/lina/try
> 
> >> -????????? ? ? ? ?            ? XX.tar
> > 
> > I imagine it could also be a subtile lack of access rights (SELinux
> > possibly?), but usually I would suspect a message about it then.
> 
> Yes, it has SELinux.

Might be related, but I am not deeply enough into it.

> >> I wonder how can I delete it?
> > 
> > Are you sure that it is a good idea to try to delete something were you
> > at least partly have no access rights to and then as it appears don´t
> > know how it happened to be there in the first place?
> > 
> > If thats the monster box I´d contact your system administrator about it
> > :).
> 
> It's well maintained, at least far better than other boxes I met before.
> Just it might be my fault, long long time ago, I might chmod blindly at
> that time.

Monster box was related to the hardware equipment, not the administration :)

> > Also be careful on what possibly private information you disclose here
> > to the public. As interested as I would be to have some access to such
> > a box :)
> 
> How? btw, please feel free to help me delete this directory if you
> access to it.

what happens on

chmod u+rwx /home/lina/try

What does

find /home/lina/try -ls

say then?

If -ls in find does not work try:

find /home/lina/try -exec ls -ld {} \;

Thanks,
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