On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, you wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Deven Phillips wrote:
>
> > Here's a little addition to my previous post. Here's some screen output from
> > the shell (using BASH BTW):
> >
> > [root@d-spair /home]# ls -af
>
> how about a simple ls -l
drwxr-x--- 7 cyn cyn 4096 Dec 27 12:03 cyn/
drwxr-x--- 10 deven deven 4096 Dec 27 14:55 deven/
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Dec 26 04:59 ftp/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 27 17:06 html/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 16384 Dec 25 19:21 lost+found/
drwxr-xr-x 12 sympa sympa 4096 Dec 26 05:06 sympa/
>
> > ls: httpd: No such file or directory
> > ./ ../ lost+found/ ftp/ sympa/ deven/ cyn/ html/
> > [root@d-spair /home]# mkdir httpd
> > mkdir: cannot make directory `httpd': File exists
>
> stat httpd
Can't access httpd: No such file or directory.
[root@d-spair /home]#
>
> > As I live and breathe this is strange. It's kinda like the file is halfway
> > unlinked somehow?????
>
> sync ..?
[root@d-spair /home]# sync
[root@d-spair /home]# ls -l
ls: httpd: No such file or directory
total 36
drwxr-x--- 7 cyn cyn 4096 Dec 27 12:03 cyn/
drwxr-x--- 10 deven deven 4096 Dec 27 14:55 deven/
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Dec 26 04:59 ftp/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 27 17:06 html/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 16384 Dec 25 19:21 lost+found/
drwxr-xr-x 12 sympa sympa 4096 Dec 26 05:06 sympa/
Deven Phillips,
Cytronix Computer Services, Inc.