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Date:      Thu, 18 Jul 2002 13:28:25 -0600
From:      "Seth Hieronymus" <sethh@principia.edu>
To:        <sethh@principia.edu>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: permissions problem with /var/empty
Message-ID:  <OE79yGevLUYaK8P3Pfb00029f0a@hotmail.com>

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On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 12:49:17PM -0600, Seth Hieronymus wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a problem.  When upgrading my openssh-portable, it fails to install
> when it tries to "chmod 0700 /var/empty", which gives the error message:
> Operation not permitted.  The permissions on /var/empty are 0555.  When I
> tried to "rm -rf /var/empty", it fails with the same error message.  My /var
> is linked to /usr/var.  I tried to chmod /usr/var/empty, but no difference.
I
> have stopped almost all of the services running in the background, and lsof
> reports that there aren't any processes using anything in /var/empty.
>
> Anyone have any suggestions to remedy this?

Hmm, sounds like it might be the directory's flags.  Try

# ls -Ldlo /var/empty

and see if the flag "schg" is set.

If so, unset it (chflags -RH noschg /var/empty), make your changes and
reset the flag using "chflags -RH schg /var/empty".

HTH

Dan

--
Daniel Bye




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