files with strange permissions and attribute

[Ali, Saqib]

Hi Wayne,

I was logged in as root. So I am thinking that it may not be the
permissions issue.

Thanks
saqib
http://www.linkedin.com/in/encryption

On 6/11/07, Wayne Betts <wbetts at bnl.gov> wrote:
> Ali, Saqib wrote:
> > This morning I noticed the following files on my RHEL 5.0 server:
> > ?---------  ? ?      ?         ?            ? insert visio buttons.exe
> > ?---------  ? ?      ?         ?            ? visbut97.dot
> > ?---------  ? ?      ?         ?            ? visbut97.xls
> > ?---------  ? ?      ?         ?            ? visiomso.bmp
> > ?---------  ? ?      ?         ?            ? visiomso.doc
> > ?---------  ? ?      ?         ?            ? visiomso.dot
> > ?---------  ? ?      ?         ?            ? visiomso.xls
> > ?---------  ? ?      ?         ?            ? visioppt.ppa
> > ?---------  ? ?      ?         ?            ? vismsobt.pot
> >
> > I know the files belong to the MS Visio media. But I am not sure what
> > happened to the permissions and the attributes.
> >
> > They were fine till yesterday. Can anyone tell the question marks
> > indicate?
> >
> > Thanks
> > saqib
> > http://www.linkedin.com/in/encryption
> >
> Check the permissions on the parent directory.  This looks like
> something I've seen on RHEL 4 when I didn't have read permission, but
> much to my surprise I could still get a list of files like yours.  It
> seemed like a bug to me, but I didn't pursue it.
>
> -Wayne
>
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Saqib Ali, CISSP, ISSAP
http://www.full-disk-encryption.net