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Date:      Fri, 13 Sep 2002 07:51:54 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Dave McCammon <davemac11@yahoo.com>
To:        "Gary D. Kline" <kline@thought.org>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: can't rm -f /var/empty:: a new feature for 4.7?
Message-ID:  <20020913145154.43377.qmail@web14806.mail.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <200209130501.g8D51EK01185@tao.thought.org>

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--- "Gary D. Kline" <kline@thought.org> wrote:
> 
> 
>   Hi Folks,
> 
>   While running mergemaster with "t" to /tmp, I
> created a /var/tmp/empty.
>   All are dirs, and "empty" is mode "dr-".  Not even
> root can chmod or
>   rmdir.  I may be wrong, but the index node does no
> seem  to point to
>   itself.   Any ideas on what's going on?  How to
> remove?  This is more 
>   of a HUH, WHAT THE HELL? than anything.  I'm
> stumped.  It this a new
>   security feature in 4.7PRE?
> 
>   gary
> 
Try chflags -R noschg /DIRECTORY
the rm -rf /DIRECTORY

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