Re: fs corruption problem

["Alistair Y. Lewars" <slams penguin rutgers edu>]

Julian wrote:

> Michael,
> Yes, naturally I've tried all options of rm as documented in rm --help 
> and man rm.
> Also true of rmdir.
>
> Yes I want to remove it because during the boot process I'm told there 
> are bad characters in the file name.
> The two rogue files was originally here:
> /var/log/seti//dev/log
> /var/log/seti//var/loc
[...]
> julian.
> ============

Julian,

Check to see if there are any bad characters.  To do that, type this

	cd /var/log/seti (or wherever the rouge files maybe)
	ls -rQ *
	
	(or)

	ls -rb *

This will give an indication if there are any non-visable controle 
characters within the filename.

If there are, try deleteing using the characters that you do see.

	rm -i /dev/log*
	rm -i /var/loc*
	
	
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--Alistair