Corrupt directory!

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Dec 20, 2007, Ken Moffat wrote:
>Of course, this doesn't explain what caused this directory to be in that 
>state, but fixed is fixed.

Slightly sophisticated crackers will often set the immutable
attribute to make it more difficult to undo their changes.

When one does an ``lsattr'' command, it will show a list of
letters indicating the attributes set so one can undo these with
``chattr -iyz filname'' where the letters correspond to the set
attributes.  The chattr command also has a ``-R'' option to do it
recursively (as does lsattr).

Bill
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