Hi,

This is very strange and I hope someone can help.
One of our clients uploaded some files into a folder named 'images' but now cannot access that folder or delete it as it gives permission errors.

When I check the contents of the higher level directory with ls -al I get this:
?rwxr---wx 10624 31664128 796918243 675283427 Oct 19 1991 images

We cannot remove (rm -rf) nor (rm -df) nor chmod or chown this folder 'images' as the system doesn't seem to recognise it.

rm: cannot remove `images': Operation not permitted

Any advice?
The system is RH9

Regards,

The directory file (Windows calls them 'folders', not UNIX), which is a special file, seems to be broken. I don't think you should have that question mark '?' there, it should be 'd' instead. Haven't yet found out how you can fix it or if it's easily fixable, but I'll keep trying..a fsck run might do some good, but since I've never used it myself (manually), I'm not 100% sure if it's a good idea in this situation (yet), so don't go there quite yet. First try to look around again to see if you find out how to fix 'broken' directory files..or if you can.

Hi,

Thanks for the reply.
I solved the problem by running fsck at boot.