[CentOS] Weird permission

Mon Aug 3 13:22:55 UTC 2009
John Doe <jdmls at yahoo.com>

From: muhammad panji <sumodirjo at gmail.com>
> [root at clarisa ~]# ls -lha
> total 52K
> drwxr-xr-x   4 root root 4.0K 2009-08-01 02:38 .
> drwxr-xr-x. 23 root root 4.0K 2009-07-31 15:47 ..
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 4.0K 2009-07-31 15:06 backup
> -rw-------.  1 root root  14K 2009-08-01 08:34 .bash_history
> -rw-r--r--.  1 root root   18 2009-03-30 18:51 .bash_logout
> -rw-r--r--.  1 root root  176 2009-03-30 18:51 .bash_profile
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root  587 2009-07-20 14:34 .bashrc
> -rw-------   1 root root   43 2009-07-31 15:20 .lesshst
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 4.0K 2009-07-31 15:38 .uml
> there are dot on .. (parent dir), and several files on root's home dir

Maybe try:

  strace ls -la 2>&1 | grep lstat64

and see if the numeric rights look different...

JD