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Creating files/directories with numeric names



Ok this is the second machine that I've had this happen on and it's giving 
me both the fits and the creeps.

Suddenly on an old FC2 machine and a fedora7 machine I can no longer 
create a file or directory that has a numeric name. IE:

[root@harpo ~]# touch 9
touch: cannot touch `9': No such file or directory
[root@harpo ~]# touch 8what
[root@harpo ~]# touch 8
touch: cannot touch `8': No such file or directory
[root@harpo ~]# rm *what
rm: remove regular empty file `8what'? y
[root@harpo ~]#


The same symptoms for mkdir. This means that some normal things don't 
work, like upgrading a kernel where rpm needs to create a module directory 
called '802'.

eks

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