file owner 1058???

Richard S. Crawford rscrawford at mossroot.com
Thu Jan 6 16:55:22 UTC 2005


jim lawrence said:
>>
>> Log in as yourself.
>>
>> Open a shell.
>>
>> $ su
>> password: xxxxxx
>> # cd .Trash-jimf  (assuming your user name is jimf)
>> # ls -la
>>
>> This should list the files in your trash directory that you didn't see
>> when you logged in as root at the login screen.  You should then be
>> able to do:
>>
>> # rm *
>>
>> to delete those files.  Though before doing that, I'd do a pwd, just
>> to make sure you're in the right directory.
>>
>> As to how those files got into your trash folder in the first place
>> when they have a userid totally different from your own user account,
>> I can't explain that.
>
>
> like  i said, i tried to build mplayer  before  and a whole lot of
> problems. so i scrapped all of it and went a different way
> here is the output you asked for..
>
> -- [root at localhost Trash]# ls -la
> total 24
> drwx------  2 jim jim 4096 Dec 28 09:46 .
> drwxr-xr-x  3 jim jim 4096 Jan  6 11:31 ..
> -rw-r--r--  1 jim jim 1524 Jan  1 12:40 .directory
> [root at localhost Trash]# pwd
> /home/jim/Desktop/Trash
> [root at localhost Trash]# rm *
> rm: cannot lstat `*': No such file or directory
> [root at localhost Trash]#

This is why I suggested cc'ing your messages to the fedora list (which I
see you've done).  You've moved beyond my skill level with this one.  :)



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