On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 05:12:33PM +0200, Marcin Sochacki wrote: > On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 10:00:02AM -0400, Robert Brown wrote: > > I tried to update my debian box which is running Potato. When libc6 tries > > to > > install it fails giving an error about not being able to symlink > > libnss_db.so.2. > > I took a look at libnss_db.so.2 and things are very odd. A 'ls -la' gives > > the > > following: > > > > br-xr-S-wx 1 22304 8236 105, 114 Oct 23 2030 libnss_db.so.2 > > > > I've tried to delete, rename, chown and chmod with out any luck. What > > should I > > do? I can't even find out what 'S' as a permission is. Any help would be > > greatly appreciated. > > man chattr
Or maybe better fsck. The 'b' means it's a block special device file. The 'S' means the same as 's', but without the corresponding 'x' bit set. regards Marcin -- Marcin Owsiany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://student.uci.agh.edu.pl/~porridge/ GnuPG: 1024D/60F41216 FE67 DA2D 0ACA FC5E 3F75 D6F6 3A0D 8AA0 60F4 1216