files with strange permissions and attribute

[Wayne Betts]

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