Red Hat

Hi,

Under '/home' directory, there is one file called 'maddy'.Usually there used to be directories under /home directory.

Code:

 
[root@server06 home]# ls -alrt
total 132
drwx------  2 hcladmin sys       4096 May 30 10:54 admin
drwxr-xr-x 29 root     root      4096 Aug 27 03:54 ..
drwx------  2 v6admin  dba       4096 Oct 21 13:58 veeraadmin
drwx------  3 cmderoot cmderoot  4096 Oct 22 10:43 cmderoot
-rw-r-----  1 root     root     99314 Nov  7 06:59 maddy
drwxr-xr-x  5 v6admin  root      4096 Nov  7 06:59 .

How to change this file 'maddy' to directory without dropping it ?
Earlier 'maddy' file was directory not sure who has change it to a file now.How to find those informations?

Previously i was using this /home/maddy direcotory to move a files that exist in /oracle directory to /home/maddy since i do not have permission to move a file directly from /oracle to local drive (windows).

OS -- Linux 2.6

Regards,
Maddy

I dont think you can change a file to a directory of vice versa.
you can create a directory with name 'maddy' and move the file into that with the below code

Code:

mv maddy maddy_01 && mkdir maddy && mv maddy_01 maddy/maddy

Please check if are able to open the file and it's content, if it looks familiar to you. Start basic investigation from there.

Thanks Srini and Saps for your suggestions.

How to find out who has made those changes ?

Regards,
Maddy