On Wednesday 09 March 2005 12:40, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 14:14, Chadley Wilson wrote:
It should look like this:
# ls -la / |grep etc drwxr-xr-x 71 root root 6936 2005-03-09 08:32 etc
I would love to know how to do and undo this sort of thing to files and folders.
I wonder what has been done.
What happens if you do
chmod 755 /etc
Do you still get the screwy question marks but with a good permission part?
What is the output of "locale" and what is the contents of /etc/sysconfig/console? Does he perhaps have a very weird console font loaded? (I'm assuming this was on the text mode console, though you didn't mention it)
Almost forgot, also try running fsck on the file system. It could be as simple as a corrupted partition.