[NBLUG/talk] Wierd directory.

[Troy Arnold]

On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 12:47:55PM -0700, Steve Johnson wrote:
> I have a directory on my redhat box that I can not view even as root.
> 
> [root at xxxxx ftp]# ls -la 
> total 9
> drwxr-xr-x    6 root     root         1024 Jan 16 15:16 .
> drwxr-xr-x   23 root     root         4096 Apr 15 15:23 ..
> d--x--x--x    2 root     root         1024 Nov  5  2003 bin
> d--x--x--x    2 root     root         1024 Nov 19  2003 etc
> drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         1024 Nov 19  2003 lib
> drwxr-sr-x    5 root     ftp          1024 Sep  9  2003 pub
> 
> I can't change teh permissions on teh directory either

Maybe it's been made immutable.
Try: 
# lsattr bin
man lsattr, chattr

If those are dirs for an ftp server, they *should* be execute only.

-troy