flashing red files
 

ok im trying to find out what are these flashing red files in /etc mean and what are they doing and how i can remove them etc..
thankyou all once again

I think you are refering to link files. Its better f you leave them alone.

all my symbolic links are flashing red in my system ???? whats the deal?

no, red flashing files aer BROKEN symlinks.

why would every symbolic link be broken in my file system??

cos you messed something up... :p

what would be the way of going about fixing this little problem as i am having no trouble at all using the filesystem?

do a ls -al on the link to see where or what its pointed to, then check to see if what or where it is pointed to really exists.

ie: if you did ls -al /etc/rc3.d and it comes back with: /etc/rc3.d --> /etc/rc.d/rc3.d . Make sure that /etc/rc.d/rc3.d is the correct path.

On at least one of my systems, I've found that if you're logged in as a normal (non-root) user, symlinks pointing to files to which you do not have permissions will also flash red. They aren't really broken, but I guess in a sense you could say they are because, not having permissions to the target files, you can't follow the links.