files with strange permissions and attribute
Wayne Betts
wbetts at bnl.gov
Mon Jun 11 18:27:28 UTC 2007
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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