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On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 05:50:12AM +0100, Alex Buell wrote:
> I just found a pair of '..' directories in the /lib directory. e2fsck 1.19
> didn't even pick up on this!
>
> /lib
> 4 drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 4096 Jun 9 16:06 ..
> 4 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 27 Jun 9 15:55 ..
>
> How can I get rid of this? I'm on kernel 2.2.19, running on sparc-linux.

ls -aQ


I bet that file has atleasy one space after the "..". The -Q makes ls
enclose the filename in double-quotes.

I'de be worried if this were actually the case, and check the contents
of that file. It's a common way for someone to "hide" files when they
crack a system.


Ben

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