Flashing Text Highlighted in Red

[samson120]

I can't seem to find anything on this. I noticed one day after we lost power (was asleep and don't have it on a UPS yet). I am running RedHat 6.2 server (really just a routebox and firewall). I logged in after this power outage and I noticed that some of my files in various direcotries where highlighted in red and the text was flashing (like the old days in dos). I can't seem to figure out what this means. Any ideas?

[Dru Lee Parsec]

I've seen that too. Don't know what it is but I wanted to bump this post back up to the top to see if anyone else does.

Anyone?

[Ripley]

Whenever I come across this it turns out to be a symbolic link with a non-existent target. One time when this seems to happen is after an install, where certain software wasn't installed (by choice), but certain links to the non-installed software were installed anyway.

Try it your self.

ln -s <your-link-file-name> <a-non-existent-file>

Wherever you create the above link, it should be red in colour and flashing.

If there are suddenly lots of them after a forced shutdown or something, then I couldn't say why, but I would guess at file corruption of some sort.