Vivek J. Patankar wrote: >>> [root@marvin parameters]# cd /sys/module/nousb/parameters >>> [root@marvin parameters]# ls -l >>> ls: cannot access : No such file or directory >>> total 0 >>> -????????? ? ? ? ? ? > What I would like to know is the contents of the directory. Listing > the directory gives me strange output. [root@bigblack ~]# cd /sys/module/nousb/parameters [root@bigblack parameters]# ls -l total 0 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 2007-07-29 17:57 usbcore.autosuspend -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.22.1-33.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.