From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 4 19:52:05 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 3237E16A714 for ; Sun, 4 Jun 2006 19:52:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from antennex@hotmail.com) Received: from hotmail.com (bay106-f8.bay106.hotmail.com [65.54.161.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBCAD43D46 for ; Sun, 4 Jun 2006 19:52:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from antennex@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sun, 4 Jun 2006 12:52:04 -0700 Message-ID: Received: from 65.54.161.200 by by106fd.bay106.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Sun, 04 Jun 2006 19:52:01 GMT X-Originating-IP: [65.68.247.73] X-Originating-Email: [antennex@hotmail.com] X-Sender: antennex@hotmail.com In-Reply-To: <20060604144022.160fbc26.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> From: "Jack Stone" To: wmoran@collaborativefusion.com Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2006 14:52:01 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed X-OriginalArrivalTime: 04 Jun 2006 19:52:04.0727 (UTC) FILETIME=[5A95F870:01C68810] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cannot delete stubborn files X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2006 19:52:08 -0000 >From: Bill Moran >To: "Jack Stone" >CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: Cannot delete stubborn files >Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2006 14:40:22 -0400 > >"Jack Stone" wrote: > > > >From: Chris Hill > > >To: Jack Stone > > >CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > >Subject: Re: Cannot delete stubborn files > > >Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2006 09:39:51 -0400 (EDT) > > > > > >On Sun, 4 Jun 2006, Jack Stone wrote: > > > > > >>I have 2 files that resists all efforts to delete them. > > > > > >[...] > > > > > >>Here are the files and the error message: > > >>rm: local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/mach/Sys/Hostname.pm: Operation not >permitted > > >>rm: local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/mach/Sys/Syslog.pm: Operation not permitted > > > > > >Make sure the files do not have the system immutable flag set: > > > > > ># chflags noschg local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/mach/Sys/Hostname.pm > > ># chflags noschg local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/mach/Sys/Syslog.pm > > > > > >...and then see if you can't delete them. I don't know why the flag >would > > >be set, but it's something to try. > > > > > >HTH. > > > > > >-- > > >Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org > > > > Chris: Tried that at the very first. No joy! > >If flags and permissions are all set so that the files should delete, and >they still don't, reboot the system into single user mode and fsck the >partition. > >I had this happen a number of years ago. We had dirty power and the system >would reboot on occasion during brownout. We finally got UPS on the >system, >but months later we had files that wouldn't delete. The only way we >finally >got rid of them was to reboot in single user and fsck. I expect the disk >suffered some subtle corruption during an unclean boot and it took time >before we noticed. > >Another option would be to use fstat to make sure nothing has the files >open. > >HTH. > >-- >Bill Moran > Hi, Bill: Yes, tried all of that before and again no joy -- very mysteries. A free cigar to anyone who solves this one! _________________________________________________________________ Don’t just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/