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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uuneo.neosoft.com!news From: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Weird! Simple files have become device files! (2.1.5) Date: 25 Dec 1996 02:06:51 GMT Organization: NeoSoft, Inc. Lines: 27 Message-ID: <59q27r$foi@uuneo.neosoft.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.27.165.152 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33232 Just noticed this yesterday in /usr/X11/lib/X11/Xaw: brw-r--r-- 1 root wheel - 215, -1614020590 Mar 15 16:41 ListP.h and crw-r--r-- 1 root wheel - 188, -1688272693 Jan 31 1988 Tree.h Actually, they *were* even stranger than that. Bizarre owner/group, and every single one of the chflags set as well, not to mention the sticky *and* setuid/setgid bits! I fiddled with them a bit to get them to the above state. Any idea how something like this could happen? How to fix? Thanks. P.S. I did have a system lockup the other day (forced to power down without shutting down), and had to do a bit of twiddling to get the file system back into working order. -- Conrad Sabatier | conrads@neosoft.com | Eschew obfuscation. http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads |