Re: [cobalt-users] /bin/bash: root/

[flash22@xxxxxxx]

On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Jeff Lasman wrote:

> Bryan - Utopian Web Productions wrote:
> 
> > The results were the following. Notice the "total 5" with only 3 showing??
> > Hmmmm...
> > 
> > ls -al /etc/cron.hourly
> > total 5
> > drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         1024 Oct 13 11:04 .
> > drwxr-xr-x  36 root     root         3072 Jan 21 04:12 ..
> > -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root          571 Jul 25 17:22 asp_monitor.sh
> 
> I just went through four books, including the complete LDP.  I still
> don't know what the "total" line refers to, but it doesn't refer to the
> number of files; of that I'm certain, from both book examples and my own
> systems.

total is the number of blocks used, same as 'du' shows plus 1 (for some
odd reason the block used by '..' is included even tho it is accounted for
in the directory above)

gsh