Did you look at lsattr or fuser output for the file? Vaughn
On Friday 23 September 2005 20:25, Chuck wrote: > ok i am firmly convinced never to touch cpan in guests. ever. > it not only blows up every time as mentioned in earlier messages but it > then proceeds to leave a file in the root directory of the guest that is > unremovably linked to /sys. > > i spent hours searching google and the gentoo support forums on the cpan > error about terminal not supporting addhistory.. tons of entries and not > one solution. so the heck with it. any additions to cpan will be done > manually via packages. > > when i try to remove the file cpan leaves when it exits with the no history > support, it says it is a directory.. here is the ls on it > > -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 23 Sep 23 20:40 sys$command > > looks like a normal file to me.. > > so since this is experimental, i used rmdir on it. > > /sys vanished and it stayed in the directory listing. dang thing is > permanent. operations on this file give no unexpected error messages but > everything i do to that file affects only /sys > > since im the only one to ever see the guests in this machine, im leaving it > alone unless it will present some kind of problem later on. > > i dont need it for this machine, but i must solve this cpan problem for the > next machine as there will be guests run by other admins that are cpan and > perl crazy. i think their breakfast bowls have perl /cpan logos on them! > > before i tackle cpan though i must study iproute2 and get the 3rd nic to > work on a 3rd network in this machine (tomorrow i hope). > > Bertl hinted possibly something wrong in the paths configurations so when i > go to cpan debugging readline is the first place im looking for that line > number and go from there. > > Hollow if you are reading this, with the stage3-latest on your site, do you > have any perl cpan problems? remember i only use remote terminals via ssh > into the machines. _______________________________________________ Vserver mailing list [email protected] http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver
