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Can't Remove A File

I am on a RHEL 4 server and was looking under the / directory and noticed an add entry from a few days ago:

Code:

[root@lt2fs3 /]# ls -l

total 194

drwxr-xr-x    2 root root        4096 Dec 15 04:04 bin

drwxr-xr-x    4 root root        5120 Jan 18 18:09 boot

drwxrwsr-x  13 root ctia_admin  4096 Jan  2 09:44 builds

drwxr-xr-x    8 root root        5840 Jan 19 09:51 dev

drwxr-xr-x  80 root root      12288 Feb 19 04:03 etc

drwxr-xr-x  255 root root      12288 Feb 15 09:56 home

drwxr-xr-x    2 root root        4096 Aug 12  2004 initrd

drwxr-xr-x  12 root root        4096 Feb 19 04:03 lib

drwx------    2 root root      16384 Apr  5  2007 lost+found

drwxr-xr-x    3 root root        4096 Jan 19 09:51 media

drwxr-xr-x    2 root root        4096 Sep  5 12:33 misc

drwxr-xr-x    2 root root        4096 Aug 12  2004 mnt

drwxr-xr-x    5 root root        4096 May 30  2007 opt

dr-xr-xr-x  90 root root          0 Jan 19 04:50 proc

drwxr-x---    5 root root        4096 Feb 20 19:20 root

-rw-r--r--    1 root root      19167 Feb  6 13:23 root@10.1.1.10

drwxr-xr-x    2 root root      12288 Jan 19 10:57 sbin

drwxr-xr-x    1 root root          0 Jan 19 04:50 selinux

drwxr-xr-x    2 root root        4096 Aug 12  2004 srv

drwxr-xr-x    9 root root          0 Jan 19 04:50 sys

drwxrwxrwt    5 root root        4096 Feb 20 04:02 tmp

drwxr-xr-x  15 root root        4096 Apr  5  2007 usr

drwxr-xr-x  22 root root        4096 May 30  2007 var

I am unable to cat or vim this file nor can I delete it. I does not appear to auto complete when I try and do anything to root@...

Does anyone know what my options are...?

Try lsof root@10.1.1.10 and see if you can find out what process is using the file, then kill that process. After that, you should be able to delete it or whatever.

EDIT: You might need quotes around the filename since it has special characters.

Quote:

Originally Posted by pljvaldez (Post 3064336)

I tried the following and no results came back. I ran in under the / directory however I don't think it matters...

Code:

[root@lt2fs3 /]# lsof "root@10.1.1.10"

Any thoughts?

Sorry, I'm not in front of my linux box. I'm a moron, it should be lsof | grep root@10.1.1.10 possibly with the quotes.

EDIT: Just for good measure, here's a good article on using lsof.

Quote:

Originally Posted by pljvaldez (Post 3064348)

Sorry, I'm not in front of my linux box. I'm a moron, it should be lsof | grep root@10.1.1.10 possibly with the quotes.

EDIT: Just for good measure, here's a good article on using lsof.

Thanks for the article on lsof. I get no response on the following command:

Code:

[root@lt2fs3 /]# lsof | grep "root@10.1.1.10"

What if you just grep for "root"

Just out of curiosity, were you able to resolve this?

Nope - nothing seemed to have worked. Its strange. Its there listed as a file but the system can't address it I assume due to the special character in the name so I can't delete it either...sucks!

Can you delete it by inode number? Try ls -il to find out the inode number. Then delete it with find . -inum XXXXXX -exec rm -i {} \; (where XXXXX is the inode number).

try lsattr [filename]
if you see an i in there
try chattr -i [filename]
remember to escape the special characters in the file name so you get the name right.

i is the immutable flag

Once you chattr +i a file nothing can be done to it until you chattr -i it.

-Viz

[QUOTE
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19167 Feb 6 13:23 root@10.1.1.10
[/QUOTE]

As per my knowledge, I think that you were trying to do a scp from that machine to 10.1.1.10 and while doing so you have not placed a 'colon' after that. And that's why the file was created. That seems to be a binary file. Being root you should be able to delete it.

Regards,

--
Prasanta

have u tried

rm ./root@10.1.1.10
or
rm ./"root@10.1.1.10"