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Hi,

I have found a directory on my web server that have 2 same directory names in the same location on the same partition. Is there a way to mkdir a name twice and be able to see them both in the same location?

Heres an example of the ouput:

Code:

[root]# ls
access_log.1.bkup       access_log.1.bkup.2.gz  data         public_html 
access_log.1.bkup.1.gz  access_log.1.bkup.3.gz  public_html

Unix forbids the same file name under the same directory. How could this be possible?

As you can see there are two public_html directories and they both have two different inode numbers but when you cd into public_html which one would you end up in?
Is there some way to know which one is the suspicious one? I would like to delete the suspicious public_htm. I believe an unauthorized access has created this duplicate and doing something malicious.

I have use the command find . -inum 293843 | xargs cd to try to change directory to the one I thought was suspicious but I get an error message saying directory doesn't exist. And the same error message for the other directories by trying to CD into a directory by specifying the inode instead of the file name.

Any help and ideas would be appreciated!

I need to cd into a directory by specifying the inode number and not the file name.
I would aslo like to know the possibility of creating two same name folders under same directory.

Best Regards,[COLOR="#738fbf"]

Hi.

Can you show the result of an ls -ld * command?

Check the output of 'ls -lb'. Any non-printing characters should show up escaped, in case the second directory has them.

If that doesn't help try running an fsck on the mount in question.

Yes, thanks! (I always type ls -ld out of habit)

This is the output of ls -d *

Code:

drwxrwxr-t  34 root       sappy  4096 10��10 16:17 public_html
drwxrwxrwx   2 sappy www         4096  5��26 11:37 public_html

This is the output of ls -ld

Code:

drwxr-x---  5 sappy www 4096 Oct 22 00:55 .

Before I delete the suspicious one by specifying the inode with the find command I wanted to CD into it to see if there is anything interesting. But I can not find a way to CD into a directory by specifying just the inode instead of the filename.

Has anyone ever experienced having two same directory in the same location before?

First, please use code tags for listings, command lines, ...

Second, please post the output of 'ls -lb'

Pludi,

Sorry about not using code tags.

I was able to list the contents of the directory with:

Code:

 find . -inum "inode#"  -exec ll -b {} \;

I guess that will do but I initially was looking for a way CD into directory specifying inode number.

For example:

Code:

[root]# find . -inum 987231 | xargs cd
xargs: cd: No such file or directory

or

Code:

[root]# find . -inum 987231 -exec cd {} \;
find: cd: No such file or directory

Thanks.