red highlight

[Jason Munro]

On August 13, 12:24 pm lowell <lowell at kc.rr.com> wrote:
> Folks:
>     This is on RH9: I ls'ed /usr/X11R6/bin and the binary XF86Free was
> highlighted in red; I remember seeing this before with another file and
> finding that it meant that there was a problem w/ that file, but that's
> as far as my memory goes.
>     Anybody have any further info about it?
>
>

Generally symbolic links that don't point to anything show in red.
do:

touch blah
ln -s blah blah2
rm blah

and then ls to see if blah2 is the same color.
you can find out more about the file in question if you do:

ls -l <filename> 
file <filename>

HTH

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