[Novalug] Stand me in the corner.. I've been bad

Cliff Palmer cliff at palmercs.com
Fri Apr 6 17:53:47 EDT 2007


lsattr produces no output at all when lsattr oracle or lsattr /oracle as
root from /
Mike, running fsck is a good idea - I did that but no joy
Cliff

On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 17:05 -0400, Ben Creitz wrote:
> On 4/6/07, Palmer <cliff at palmercs.com> wrote:
> > I've tried several things but to no avail..
> > lsof bad_software_lives_here
> >   produces no output at all
> > fuser bad_software_lives_here
> >   reports that noone is using the directory
> >   (that is, when its not responding with a "segmentation fault" error)
> > using the fedora rescue disk then attempting to remove the directory
> >   responds with the "Device or Resource Busy" message
> > As root, chowning bad_software_lives_here to root:root then
> >   chmod 777 bad_software_lives_here
> >   works but does produces the same error message when I attempt to rmdir
> >
> > I appreciate all the input several of you have offered, but I'm still stuck.
> > Further ideas will be appreciated.
> 
> This is a long shot, but is the immutable bit set on the directory?
> 
>   man lsattr
>   man chattr
> 
> Ben



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