[olug] directory impossible to delete

[Terry]

This might make some of you older folk quiver but you
might try reading the chattr and lsattr man pages.

ls will not show those attributes if they are set.


--- Terry <td3201 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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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