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Subject: Re: A Unix question. (Slightly off-topic)

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 19:04:54 06/24/02

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On June 24, 2002 at 20:27:20, Keith Evans wrote:

>On June 24, 2002 at 20:13:16, Slater Wold wrote:
>
>>A ran into a problem today with a system running SCO 5.0.5m.  I can not figure
>>it out, and it's driving me nuts.  (Yes, I have looked on the 'Net, I can't find
>>anything.)
>>
>>I logon as root, and I go into "/programs" and type "ls" I see a list of files.
>>They are owned by several different users, with several different permissions,
>>types, sizes, etc.  I chmod *everything* 777.  (From root, I type, "chmod -R 777
>>programs".)
>>
>>Then I logon as another user, slate, and go into that same exact directory
>>"/programs" and type "ls".  It gives me a list of *SOME* of the files.  (About
>>70%.)  If I type "ls <anything>*" it will tell me "no such file or directory".
>>
>>Basically, there are a handful of files, that are virtually "hidden" to all
>>other users except root.  Even after chmod'ing everything 777.
>>
>>
>>Any ideas?
>>
>>I appreciate any response.
>
>
>Any chance that file versioning is enabled? Maybe those are deleted files?


Not in unix that I know of.  ls -l shows _all_ files.  There are no "deleted"
files in unix...



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