hmm, lsattr huh! looks like it's doing ioctl's?!!<br><br>what wrong with ls -l these days?<br><br>you know r-x-rwx--x sort of format?<br><br>by the looks of your post your in /proc when<br>your running it? that's a bad idea.<br><br>host.deny.. tcp wrapper, it's so old, I don't think<br>it's even supported anymore..<br><br>use iptables, it's for real men/women/aliens.<br><br>Laters,<br>Lee<br><br><b><i>Andrew Clayton <andrew@digital-domain.net></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:52:29 +0100, Alan S Frost wrote:<br><br>> <br>> Have you ever experienced this problem? How is it caused and how can<br>> I reset it please?<br><br>From the chattr man page<br><br>"The ’I’ attribute is used by the htree code to indicate that a direc-<br> tory is behind indexed using hashed trees. It may not be set or reset<br> using chattr(1), although
it can be displayed by lsattr(1)."<br><br>Right, so this is the dir_index feature. tune2fs -l /dev/<fs device=""> will show among other stuff a line like<br><br>Filesystem features: has_journal ext_attr resize_inode dir_index filetype needs_recovery sparse_super large_file<br><br>dir_index is used to speed directory access with large amounts of files.<br><br>Anaconda will have done this for you.<br><br>My workstation has a similar lsattr output as yours. So something else<br>must be wrong.<br><br>As Gordon said, make sure you are editing the file as root (or via<br>sudo). <br><br>If that's not it check that the immutable flag (i) hasn't got set on it.<br><br>$ lsattr /etc/hosts.deny<br><br>if so<br><br># chattr -i /etc/hosts.deny<br><br><br>Failing that check that the whole filesystem hasn't got remounted ro<br>do to some error. Though you'd be unlikely to miss that fact!<br><br>Other than that a fsck may be in
order.<br><br><br>Andrew<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>dundee GNU/Linux Users Group mailing list<br>dundee@lists.lug.org.uk http://dundee.lug.org.uk<br>https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dundee<br>Chat on IRC, #tlug on dundee.lug.org.uk<br></fs></blockquote><br><p> 
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