file permission problem

[Charles Hallenbeck]

Hi gang,

Here is a puzzler. In one of my /var/log directories managed by 
logrotate, I have a series of files such as:

check_rootkit.out.xx

where the xx are numbers from 1 to 10. When I do an "ls" in that 
directory, I am told that stat cannot access the file with the number 8 
at the end because I have no permissions. The other files in the group 
have permissions 0600 and are owned by root:root, and I am root when I 
attempt this.

What can be happening here? Is there such a file or not? It does not get 
listed with the other similar ones, and I am not told "does not exist" 
when trying to access, but "no permission". I cannot chown it, or chmod 
it, or ls it, or of course rm it, which is what I would like to do.

Has anyone seen anything like this before? Any clue how to handle this?

Thanks,
Chuck

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