From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 3 10:39:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BC5937B400 for ; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 10:39:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7080243E3B for ; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 10:39:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.198]) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g83HdfLu023457; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 13:39:41 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g83Hdep0023454; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 13:39:40 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: be-well.ilk.org: lowell set sender to freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org using -f To: Jason Borkowsky Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /var/empty on FreeBSD-4.6.2 References: From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 03 Sep 2002 13:39:40 -0400 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <44d6rv9dlv.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 12 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jason Borkowsky writes: > Why do I get this on FreeBSD 4.6.2-RELEASE and not 4.5-RELEASE: > > # chmod 700 /var/empty > chmod: empty: Operation not permitted > > I do not have kernel security on and I can change permissions on all other > directories. What is locking me out of doing a chmod on /var/empty as root? the 'schg' flag. ("man chflags" for info) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message