[olug] directory impossible to delete

[Terry]

What's the output of ls -l on the directory?
Might want to do a `file directory` too...just to make
sure.


--- Ryan O'Rourke <ryano at ch-gifts.com> wrote:
> Somehow I've ended up with a directory on my
> filesystem that is owned by
> user '9437684' and group '9437680' with permissions
> of 774. Neither user
> nor group actually exist on my machine and I'm
> guessing that somehow
> through transfer of files from one machine to
> another I have ended up
> with this error.
> The problem is I can't delete it, even as root, and
> I also can't create
> a user called '9437684' in order to delete it. Is
> there someway I can
> get rid of that directory?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -- Ryan
> 
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=====
Terry

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