From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 3 13:19:40 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 84DBA37B400 for ; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 13:19:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sixshooter.v6.thrupoint.net (sixshooter.v6.thrupoint.net [65.242.152.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2277B43E42 for ; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 13:19:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jpb@sixshooter.v6.thrupoint.net) Received: by sixshooter.v6.thrupoint.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 3D142107A3; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 16:19:35 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 16:19:35 -0400 From: Jim Brown To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /var/empty on FreeBSD-4.6.2 Message-ID: <20020903201934.GA96889@sixshooter.v6.thrupoint.net> Mail-Followup-To: Jim Brown , questions@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i 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 [2002-09-03 13:33]: > > 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 don't have a working 4.6.x system in front of me at the moment- check /var/empty with 'ls -alo /var/empty' and see if any flags are set. man chflags(1) HTH, jpb === > 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? > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message