May 2002 - WLUG - wlug.mailman3.com

Re: [Wlug] SCSI reset error

by Brad Noyes

On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 01:09:56PM -0400, Chuck Homic wrote: > On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 02:33:09AM -0400, Keith Wright wrote: > > That looks a lot like the messages I got from a drive that was > > about to die. In my case, timeouts got more and more frequent, > > then the drive started making rattling-grinding sounds > > Hm... now that you mention it... grinding... now that i think about it, i had the same probablem. in order to fix it i turned the speed of the scsi bus down. You can give that a try, by going into the SCSI-Select utility (ctl-a on boot), and turn down the scsi bus speed. --brad

May 26, 2002

Re: [Wlug] strange filenames

by Bryan Scaringe

Just one more thought: Files with goofy names might be indicative of a screwed-up file system. It may not be a bad idea to run fsck before you go deleting any of those strange files.

May 25, 2002

Re: [Wlug] strange filenames

by Brad Noyes

Thanks everyone! All these ideas are great and i probably wouldn't have though of them on my own. Thanks again, --brad

May 25, 2002

Re: [Wlug] strange filenames

by Charles R. Anderson

On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 01:43:23PM -0400, Bryan Scaringe wrote: scaringe> you could also try removing the files by inode. Like this I suppose: # shows the inode numbers for each file in the directory ls -i # removes inode number N find . -inum N -exec rm {} \; -- Charles R. Anderson <cra(a)wpi.edu> / http://angus.ind.wpi.edu/~cra/ PGP Key ID: 49BB5886 Fingerprint: EBA3 A106 7C93 FA07 8E15 3AC2 C367 A0F9 49BB 5886

May 25, 2002

Re: [Wlug] strange filenames

by Bryan Scaringe

Charles R. Anderson wrote: >On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 11:00:22AM -0400, Brad Noyes wrote: >maitre> combination. When i try to delete the file using 'rm', or cat it, i can't seem to >maitre> pass the correct filename to rm (i do try to escape characters, and use 'TAB' but no luck). Is there a way to pass an inode number to rm or cat? > >Go to the directory that contains these strange filenames and do: > >rm -i * > >Then type y when you get to the strange file(s) you want to delete. > > > you could also try removing the files by inode.

May 25, 2002

Re: [Wlug] strange filenames

by Michelle Vadeboncoeur

On Sat, 25 May 2002, Joe Riopel wrote: JR> If you want you can also open up midnight commander, just delete it JR> that way. I had the same problem with a file named '-s' for files that start with a "-" character, to remove them you include a "--" before the file name. for your example: rm -- -s I had to move and delete a bunch of files that were named with a "-" at the beginning... Lots of graphics for a report for one of my math classes... -- --==*==-- --==*==-- Michelle R. Vadeboncoeur --==*==-- --==*==-- mrv(a)kluge.net: http://www.kluge.net/~mrv/

May 25, 2002

Re: [Wlug] strange filenames

by Joe Riopel

If you want you can also open up midnight commander, just delete it that way. I had the same problem with a file named '-s' -Joe Charles R. Anderson wrote: >On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 11:00:22AM -0400, Brad Noyes wrote: >maitre> combination. When i try to delete the file using 'rm', or cat it, i can't seem to >maitre> pass the correct filename to rm (i do try to escape characters, and use 'TAB' but no luck). Is there a way to pass an inode number to rm or cat? > >Go to the directory that contains these strange filenames and do: > >rm -i * > >Then type y when you get to the strange file(s) you want to delete. >

May 25, 2002

Sendmail

by Joe Riopel

I have sendmail set up here at work, and everyone can send email fine, except when I try to send using the good old mail command.. it tells me "Can't create transcript file ./xfg4OGa2S21960: Permission denied queueup: cannot create queue temp file ./tfg4OGa2S21960, uid=500: Permission denied" I have tried doing chmod 777 on the "/var/spool/mqueue" and it still fails. However when I use pine and set my smtp server to box.domain.com ( the localhosts name ) I am able to send fine. This problem is preventing a webmail client I wrote from sending mail... Any ideas? Thanks, Joe

May 24, 2002

Re: [Wlug] strange filenames

by Charles R. Anderson

On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 11:00:22AM -0400, Brad Noyes wrote: maitre> combination. When i try to delete the file using 'rm', or cat it, i can't seem to maitre> pass the correct filename to rm (i do try to escape characters, and use 'TAB' but no luck). Is there a way to pass an inode number to rm or cat? Go to the directory that contains these strange filenames and do: rm -i * Then type y when you get to the strange file(s) you want to delete. -- Charles R. Anderson <cra(a)wpi.edu> / http://angus.ind.wpi.edu/~cra/ PGP Key ID: 49BB5886 Fingerprint: EBA3 A106 7C93 FA07 8E15 3AC2 C367 A0F9 49BB 5886

May 24, 2002

Re: [Wlug] strange filenames

by Theo Van Dinter

On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 11:00:22AM -0400, Brad Noyes wrote: > For some reason i sometimes find files with strange names like '??'. When i do > a long listing the file name changes to some other bizare character > combination. When i try to delete the file using 'rm', or cat it, i can't seem to > pass the correct filename to rm (i do try to escape characters, and use 'TAB' but no luck). Is there a way to pass an inode number to rm or cat? Try "ls -b". It will show you octal codes for non-printable chars, and escape things like spaces, etc. You should be able to cut/paste that to rm. -- Randomly Generated Tagline: In most countries selling harmful things like drugs is punishable. Then howcome people can sell Microsoft software and go unpunished? (By hasku(a)rost.abo.fi, Hasse Skrifvars)

May 24, 2002