On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 03:42:40PM -0500, Rafe B. wrote: > A certain text file has become un-editable > and "invisible" to 'cat.' > > Doing 'ls -al' on this file reveals that it > has attribute 's' in the permissions string, > eg: > > srwxr-xr-x
according to the fine find manual that's for a socket special file, it has nothing to do with suid-bits as an other poster suggested. I fear that somo bozo program opened a socket with that name and overwrote your text file. -- groetjes, carel
