On Sun, 2007-01-07 at 16:13 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Sunday 07 January 2007 13:21, Rolf Gerrits wrote: > > Rick, > > > > Thanks, but I tried all that . I cannot change the ownership nor the > > permissions ( as root ) . > > Maybe I can give root temporary "rpm" permissions (group member) ? I am > > not sure this will work or if I dare. > > > > Thing is, that at startup the system cannot remove these files either. > > I was wondering if I could run "fsck" or something on an mounted system > > ( or specific directory ). > > Possibly these are not really files, but just corrupted entries ? > > I am open to suggestions ... ( formatting is not an option :-b ) > > Maybe you said thisd already but what does ls -l return for the files. Or in addition what does the file command return. -- ======================================================================= "I've seen it. It's rubbish." -- Marvin the Paranoid Android ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx