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Date:      Fri, 18 Nov 2005 07:58:39 -0800
From:      Micah <micahjon@ywave.com>
To:        Tofik Suleymanov <tofik@oxygen.az>
Cc:        robert@webtent.com, Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>, FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Override prompt when deleting a file
Message-ID:  <437DFA2F.6090205@ywave.com>
In-Reply-To: <437E1478.8040501@oxygen.az>
References:  <1132321525.30630.3.camel@columbus.webtent.org>	<44wtj6m2kz.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>	<1132326705.30630.7.camel@columbus.webtent.org> <437E1478.8040501@oxygen.az>

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Tofik Suleymanov wrote:
> Robert Fitzpatrick wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 09:51 -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> Robert Ftizpatrick <robert@webtent.com> writes:
>>>
>>>   
>>>
>>>> I'm logged in to my FreeBSD 5.2.1 box as 'admin' via ssh, why would I
>>>> receive this override prompt?
>>>>
>>>> -bash-2.05b$ ls -la massage.xls
>>>> -rw-r--r--  1 admin  admin  4463104 Aug 29 17:25 massage.xls
>>>> -bash-2.05b$ rm massage.xls
>>>> override rw-r--r--  admin/admin for massage.xls?
>>>>     
>>>
>>> Check the permissions on the directory?
>>> _______________________________________________
>>>   
>>
>>
>> Yes, I did...
>>
>> -bash-2.05b$ ls -la
>> total 460441
>> drwxr-xr-x  18 admin  admin       1024 Nov 18 08:38 .
>> drwxr-xr-x   5 admin  admin        512 Jan  4  2005 ..
>>
>> -- 
>> Robert
>>
> add alias ls 'ls -f' to shell startup script
from man ls:
  -f      Output is not sorted.

How does sorting the output of ls affect the ability to remove the file?

To original poster: is the immutable bit set on the file?

HTH
Micah



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