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From: "Robert L. Hatch" <rlhatch@home.ifx.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Bad file descriptor... What is this?
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 17:48:44 +0000
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I am running FreeBSD 2.1-RELEASE.  Upon restoring some files that were
"tared", I can't do anything with some of the restored files.  The
ownership of these files is root:wheel (this is not what they were prior
to being tared), if I try do delete them, rename them, or anyting else,
I get a message that sais "bad file descriptor" and it won't let me do
the operation.  I can't do anything to these files (i.e., delete,
rename, etc.)  I need to delete these files so that I can replace them
with files that I can manipulate... I need help, How can I work with
these files?