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From: Veggy Vinny <richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
To: Ben Black <black@MR.Net>
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Subject: Re: can't delete rcp
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On Mon, 15 Jul 1996, Ben Black wrote:

> ok, i'm feeling really stupid for this one...
> 
> slowburn: {1} whoami
> root
> slowburn: {2} rm rcp
> override r-sr-xr-x  root/bin schg for rcp? y
> rm: rcp: Operation not permitted
> slowburn: {3} chmod 0755 rcp
> chmod: rcp: Operation not permitted
> slowburn: {4} mv rcp rcp.bak
> mv: rename rcp to rcp.bak: Operation not permitted
> 
> 
> i tried unlinking the thing, cat /dev/null onto it...what simple thing am i missing?

	Just do the following:

chflags noschg /bin/rcp

Vince