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jordz

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Registered: 2006-02-01

Posts: 248

Strange directory: /-q

I got a strange directory in my /

[root@jordz-laptop /]# ls -allh
total 80K
drwxr-xr-x  36 root root 4.0K 2007-04-23 11:06 -q
drwxr-xr-x  20 root root 4.0K 2007-04-23 11:06 .
drwxr-xr-x  20 root root 4.0K 2007-04-23 11:06 ..
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 4.0K 2007-05-01 09:25 bin
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root 4.0K 2007-05-08 09:01 boot
drwxr-xr-x  18 root root    0 2007-05-08 19:03 dev
drwxr-xr-x  61 root root 4.0K 2007-05-08 17:59 etc
drwxr-xr-x   7 root root 4.0K 2007-05-08 17:55 home
drwxr-xr-x   7 root root 4.0K 2007-05-08 09:01 lib
drwx------   2 root root  16K 2007-03-02 18:54 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root 4.0K 2007-05-08 14:34 media
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root 4.0K 2007-05-05 14:35 mnt
drwxr-xr-x  13 root root 4.0K 2007-05-07 10:40 opt
dr-xr-xr-x 123 root root    0 2007-05-08 16:33 proc
drwxr-x---  14 root root 4.0K 2007-05-08 17:56 root
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 4.0K 2007-05-08 17:14 sbin
drwxr-xr-x  11 root root    0 2007-05-08 16:33 sys
drwxrwxrwt  14 root root 4.0K 2007-05-08 21:09 tmp
drwxr-xr-x  12 root root 4.0K 2007-05-08 09:01 usr
drwxr-xr-x  16 root root 4.0K 2007-04-26 22:27 var

I had this directory once before but didn't know what it was so i deleted it.
But now i want to know what it is. If i try to move to /-q:

[root@jordz-laptop /]# cd -q/
bash: cd: -q: invalid option
cd: usage: cd [-L|-P] [dir]

I see nothing suspicious in htop.
It's on my laptop not a server or something.
I use it at school and other places, but i don't got a (software) firewall installed.
I only run samba and sshd.

Maybe somebody can help me and tell me what it is ?
Thanks!

dmartins

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Registered: 2006-09-23

Posts: 360

Re: Strange directory: /-q

Maybe you just created it by mistake?
If you want to cd into it, try cd \-q or cd "-q"

jordz

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Registered: 2006-02-01

Posts: 248

Re: Strange directory: /-q

Maybe you just created it by mistake?
If you want to cd into it, try cd \-q or cd "-q"

cd \-q or cd "-q" both don't work, i already tried that.
I don't think i created it by mistake, because this is the second time
i see this exactly the same directory, maybe some package created this directory by mistake?

Last edited by jordz (2007-05-08 20:26:55)

bones

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From: Brisbane

Registered: 2006-03-24

Posts: 322

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Re: Strange directory: /-q

Look here http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=32480

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jordz

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Registered: 2006-02-01

Posts: 248

Re: Strange directory: /-q

Look here http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=32480

Thank you! That clears things up !