[plug] Weird!, but the question is, how can I fix or delete these files?

[Jon Miller]

Had a situation very similar to yours and what I did was on a windows pc I had winscp32 on it.  I was able to 1) copy the files tot he windows PC and delete the ones on the Linux system.  You may want to do this.  I was able to reset the attribute on the windows pc to r/w and access the files.  If you have a Windows PC it's worth the try.

J

Jon L. Miller, MCNE, CNS, ASE
Director/Sr Systems Consultant
MMT Networks Pty Ltd
http://www.mmtnetworks.com.au

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure
 is trying to please everybody." -Bill Cosby



>>> billk at iinet.net.au 6:02:42 pm 29/11/2003 >>>
I have some (but not all of) the files in a directory that I cannot do
anything with.  That is, even as root, an ls gives permission denied, as
does "chmod 644 *".  However in a bash shell you can give the first few
letters and hit tab and get the completed file name.  I downloaded the
files and copied them to their current location.  Trying to open them
via a browser calling xpdf fails with an "unknown error", but xpdf will
open them if I cd to the directory and "xpdf filename" in a console.

Weird!, but the question is, how can I fix or delete these files?  I
presume they have lost all permissions and now cannot be changed.


rattus R # ls -al
ls: RandBioC.pdf: Permission denied
ls: affyDemo.pdf: Permission denied
ls: End2EndLab.pdf: Permission denied
total 2061
drwxr-xr-x    2 wdk      wdk           352 Nov 28 08:13 .
drwxrwxr-x    6 wdk      wdk          3640 Nov 26 09:08 ..
-rwxrwxrwx    1 wdk      wdk        637620 Sep 22 11:22
An-Introduction-to-R.pdf
-rwxrwxrwx    1 wdk      wdk        260950 Sep 22 11:22
R-Data-Import-Export.pdf
-rwxrwxrwx    1 wdk      wdk        199309 Sep 22 11:22
R-Installation-and-Administration.pdf
-rwxrwxrwx    1 wdk      wdk        595173 Sep 22 11:22
UCBGenomics03.pdf
-rwxrwxrwx    1 wdk      wdk        404339 Nov 21 13:19 cDNADemo.pdf
.
BillK

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William Kenworthy <billk at iinet.net.au>

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