[plug] Scary Stuff

[Peter Wilsmore]

On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 04:44:04PM +0800, Bernard wrote:
> >     I've recently found a directory titled "/etc/init.d/?". I'm pretty 
> > sure that it shouldn't be there. Is this just a filesystem error 
> > (Reiserfs) or something more sinister?
> 
> I've found midnight commander (mc) has saved me many a time when i
> created bizarre filenames that bash globbed or i otherwise
> couldn't get rid of. Perhaps give that a try?
> 

having had that problem meny times before I can provide a fairly simple 
solution. Try 'ls /etc/init.d/ > <somefilename>' edit the file and get rid 
of everything you dont want to delete and `rm `cat <somefilename>`` 

thanks,
  the Djinn