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Date:      Fri, 8 Feb 2002 02:03:07 +0200 (EET)
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        Joseph Koenig <joe@jwebmedia.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: rm /usr/lib/libcrypt.so.2: Operation not permitted
Message-ID:  <20020208020102.W22809-100000@hades>
In-Reply-To: <3C5EE464.F5E9BC4D@jwebmedia.com>

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Joseph Koenig wrote:

> Why can root not delete a file? I was logged in as root, doing a 'make
> world' and got the following error:
>
> rm: libcrypt.so.2: Operation not permitted
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/src/lib/libcrypt.
> *** Error code 1

...

> How can I get rid of this problem? This is FreeBSD 4.2. Thanks,

The file is `schg' (marked as immutable).

Use chflags to remove the special flags from all the files that cannot be
removed.  For instance, before I 'make buildworld', I use:

	# cd /usr/obj
	# chflags -R noschg *
	# /bin/rm -fr *

to clean up my /usr/obj tree.

-- 
Giorgos Keramidas . . . . . . . . . keramida@{ceid.upatras.gr,freebsd.org}
FreeBSD Documentation Project . . . http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/
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