[PLUG] Unfindable File

[Fred James]

Rich Shepard wrote:
>    This may have something to do with those orphan files I am dealing with,
> since it's come up only since those files appeared.
>
>    Whenever I run 'find / -name ...' the last line returned is,
>
> find: Warning: file `ask.c' appears to have mode 0000
>
>    I cannot find any file named ask.c and I suspect that mode 0000 makes it
> (virtually?) impossible to do so.
>
>    I've not yet partitioned, formatted, and copied files from the two
> existing drives to the new 500G/7200rpm WD Caviar Black, so this may
> disappear when I do that and not copy the one directory on the old 80G hdb
> that has the orphaned files.
>
>    Has anyone knowledge of what that warning means and why it appears?
>
> Rich
>   

Rich Shepard
Have you tried (as root), chmod?  Perhaps 'chmod 666 ask.c'
Regards
Fred James