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SCO 5.06

Someone broke into my NT box (grrr) and somehow, they created a bunch of directories w/ subdirectories that appear un-named.

I mounted the drive on my unix box using NFS and when I listed the directory in unix, Im getting a bunch of ascii charachters.

drwxr-xr-x 8 root group 240 Aug 19 22:24 ¿⌐£╥╫╪┘

I moved all directories the other directorioes out of the drive, and tried to do a "rm -r *" on the remaining. Didn't work.

Any ideas on how to remove it?

Thanks!
Georgio

This has happened to me before. All I did was create a new directory, and put all the bad-named directories inside it.

Then you should be able to delete the new directory you made.

If you want to remove files with ASCII charactors you would do the following command : rm -i *
This will search through the directory and ask you if you want to delete the selected file, you just reply with a Y or N

I guess if you want to delete directories you could try rm -fri *

but test this is a test directory stucture to begin with just in case.

hope it works

Hi,

I can only strongly recommend to run an fsk on that FS. This is also something you see when a FS is corrupted !!!
It might be a bad creation of, but in most cases this is a corrupted FS.

fsck -m could already indicate which filesystems could be wrong, but is never leading !

Regs David

Thanks Synbios, that worked!

Georgio S.