[290] in Athena Bugs
Re: An NFS bug?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Henry Mensch)
Sat Apr 30 18:24:12 1988
From: Henry Mensch <henry@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: <tjcoppet@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, henry@garp.mit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of Sat, 30 Apr 88 02:36:58 -0400.
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 88 18:23:32 EDT
>I have two files in my home directory:
>-rw------- 1 tjcoppet 0 Apr 29 17:44 tty
>-rw------- 1 tjcoppet 0 Apr 28 04:02 tty
>I have no idea how they got there and every program which
>tries to access them (rm, mv, cp, etc..) says that these
>files are non existent.
I doubt this is a NFS bug, and I imagine it is a bug in some
application program you are using. Everyone knows that Unix doesn't
permit multiple files with the same name in the same directory
(right?), and the names probably have unprintable characters in them.
Try using
rm -i tty*
to get rid of these files ... rm will ask you about each filename, and
you should respond "y" ... see the rm manual page for more
information. GNU Emacs' dired mode will also help you remove these
files.
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-- Henry Mensch / <henry@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
-- Project Athena Quality Assurance
