[plug] Scary Stuff

Adrian Woodley AWoodley at IINet.net.au
Fri Dec 7 10:35:39 WST 2001


Thats not a bad idea. However, the question still remains - What is it 
and why is it there? :)

Peter Wilsmore wrote:

>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
>
>
>





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