Never mind. I found what happened and it was an issue with the DB wizard I used when setting up the directory. I think I fixed the issue. ________________________________ From: plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Bryan O'Neal Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 1:27 PM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: File structure problem - Created a file I should not have withstrange results Ok, so I am working away and I wanted to create a new log folder, and so I created one called log. Wheat appeared was a strange fully populated folder, after which my whole db install was screwed. How can I recover? And what do the t and s stand for in drwxrwsr-t anyway? I fear if I don't get a solution I will be looking at a backup, wipe, and reinstall. What I have it this: From: ls -aCFlLN /home/db2inst1/ drwxr-xr-x 12 db2inst1 db2iadm1 4096 Jul 9 13:02 ./ drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 Jul 6 14:38 ../ -rw------- 1 db2inst1 db2iadm1 432 Jul 9 12:53 .bash_history -rw-r--r-- 1 db2inst1 db2iadm1 24 Jun 3 12:04 .bash_logout -rw-r--r-- 1 db2inst1 db2iadm1 176 Jun 3 12:04 .bash_profile -rw-r--r-- 1 db2inst1 db2iadm1 274 Jun 3 12:04 .bashrc drwxrwxr-x 3 db2inst1 db2iadm1 4096 Jun 23 11:31 db2inst1/ -rw-r--r-- 1 db2inst1 db2iadm1 515 Jun 3 12:04 .emacs -rw-r--r-- 1 db2inst1 db2iadm1 254 Jul 9 12:02 fullbackupscript.txt drwxr-xr-x 3 db2inst1 db2iadm1 4096 Jun 3 12:49 .ibm/ drwxr-xr-x 3 db2inst1 db2iadm1 4096 Jun 3 12:04 .kde/ drwxrwsr-t 18 db2inst1 db2iadm1 4096 Jun 26 15:01 log/ drwx------ 3 db2inst1 db2iadm1 4096 Jul 9 12:53 sqllib/ drwx------ 2 db2inst1 db2iadm1 4096 Jun 30 23:40 .ssh/ -rw------- 1 db2inst1 db2iadm1 336 Jul 9 13:02 .Xauthority What I need is this From: ls -aCFlLN /home/db2inst1/ drwxr-xr-x 6 db2inst1 db2iadm1 4096 Jul 6 16:45 ./ drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Jul 6 08:45 ../ -rw------- 1 db2inst1 db2iadm1 100 Jul 8 05:12 .bash_history -rw-r--r-- 1 db2inst1 db2iadm1 24 Jul 3 11:12 .bash_logout -rw-r--r-- 1 db2inst1 db2iadm1 176 Jul 3 11:12 .bash_profile -rw-r--r-- 1 db2inst1 db2iadm1 274 Jul 3 11:12 .bashrc drwxrwxr-x 3 db2inst1 db2iadm1 4096 Jul 3 13:06 db2inst1/ -rw-r--r-- 1 db2inst1 db2iadm1 515 Jul 3 11:12 .emacs drwxr-xr-x 3 db2inst1 db2iadm1 4096 Jul 3 13:03 .ibm/ drwxr-xr-x 3 db2inst1 db2iadm1 4096 Jul 3 11:12 .kde/ drwxrwsr-t 18 db2inst1 db2iadm1 4096 Jul 7 17:43 sqllib/ -rw------- 1 db2inst1 db2iadm1 83 Jul 3 13:03 .Xauthority