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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