help with ls command

[Baruch Siach]

Hi Camelia,

On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 10:59:42AM +0000, Camelia Botez wrote:
> I have 2 servers running Rhel5 and Centos5.
> Around 2 weeks ago on both of them , I have specific directories on which ls 
> command gets stuck.
> I don't get any output from ls , I cannot stop the command - I only can 
> close the window.
> I rebooted the servers and when I saw that reboot didn't help I ran manually  
> fsck.
> No improvement.
> Has anyone any idea what can be the cause and what to do?

Please provide the output of the following command:

    strace ls

If you don't have 'strace' on your servers, just install the strace package 
with 'yum install strace'.

baruch

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