Tim Peeler on Fri, 19 Jan 2001 02:47:30 -0500 |
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001 22:53:47 Michael Whitman wrote: > there is this file name README.configure in my apache installation > directory. I know it is there because I can open it with emacs 'emacs > ./README.configure' as well as copy it to a different location and open it > with emacs. The weird thing is that the file does not show up in the list > when i do a 'ls -a'. Whats is going on? I assume this is a weird unix > thing i don't know about yet. What are the file permissions? What version of the kernel are you using? What filesystem are you using? Have you run an fsck lately? Have you done any changes to it using chattr? (unlikely problem, but possible) ls should show it if you're able to edit it, even when it's owned by another user and group with permissions 000 There may be a bug with the filesystem code. If you're using reiserfs, and you've used an older hash and have changed to a newer hash this could be causing it. If you're using reiserfs and you've used a newer hash to create the filesystem and now you're using an older hash, this is definitly the problem (from my experience). If you're using kernel v2.4, there may be problems with the filesystem (here comes the flames...), every possible bug cannot be worked out with an initial 'stable' release, any new changes to the ext2 filesystem or even the disk controller driver can cause problems with your filesystem. If you are running reiserfs, unmount the filesystem and do a reiserfsck on it. Check the journal integrity field. Remount the filesystem read-only, reiserfsck it again. Check the journal integrity field. If either checks shows a problem with the journal integrity, you'll need to backup all your data and recreate the filesystem. If you run into any errors backing up your data, then you can revert to your old kernel (you still have it right?) and try again. If not, it's gonna be a long process trying to get all your old info, unless you've got backups (you do backup regularly right?). Tim > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group - http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements-http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug > > ______________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group - http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements-http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug
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