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Subject: Re: Un-deletable file
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	The right page would be chflags(1)
	Try as root to "chflags nouunlnk popper.4.gz" and then see if you
can erase the file.

-- Yan

I don't have the password    + Jan Koum 
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On Sun, 6 Sep 1998, Khetan Gajjar wrote:

>On Sun, 6 Sep 1998, Ben Smithurst wrote:
>
>>What does `ls -lo popper.4.gz' show? It may have some flags that need to
>>be turned off.
>
>I don't know what this means, but I'd appreciate some pointing at the
>right man pages.
>
>95=[root@chain] /var/log/pop# \ls -lo popper.4.gz 
>+ ls -lo popper.4.gz
>brw-rw-r--  1 1630430  4093666  uunlnk 105, 0x6661005f Jan  1  1970 popper.4.gz
>96=[root@chain] /var/log/pop# 
>
>--- 
>Khetan Gajjar       (!kg1779) * khetan@iafrica.com ; khetan@os.org.za
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