On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 10:12:16PM +0000, WipeOut wrote: [fsck] > It found errors and I then entered the password for root to get into > maintainance mode and ran "fsck", this found illegal filenames to > files that were not visable using any "ls" switches that I could > find.. it then repaired the illegal filenames and then I was able to > kill the directory.. I suggest you keep a close eye on this - if you didn't do anything strange to those files yourself, this *could* be a sign of your harddrive beginning to go bad... Cheerio, Thomas -- ===> Netiquette - read it, use it: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html <=== ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas Ribbrock http://www.ribbrock.org "You have to live on the edge of reality - to make your dreams come true!"