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Date:      Mon, 1 Jul 1996 17:26:43 -0500
From:      "Bradley Dunn" <dunn@harborcom.net>
To:        Nathan Torkington <gnat@frii.com>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Operation not permitted, all over -stable
Message-ID:  <199607012131.RAA07705@ns2.harborcom.net>

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man chflags
You will be especially interested in the noschg argument.

On  1 Jul 96 at 13:19, Nathan Torkington wrote:

> We have a bunch of local hacks we're making to 2.1-STABLE, involving
> rdist, ssh and so on.  In the process of installing new binaries, I've
> found that various programs, both in the root partition and in /usr,
> are bizarrely difficult to remove.  I've tried removing them as root,
> root in single-user mode, root from the console, and finally I've had
> to use clri and then fsck.  In every case, the error message I get is:
> 
> 	gnat@elara (~) whoami
> 	root
> 	gnat@elara (~) rm /usr/bin/passwd
> 	override r-sr-xr-x  root/bin schg for /usr/bin/passwd? y
> 	rm: /usr/bin/passwd: Operation not permitted

Bradley Dunn <dunn@harborcom.net>
Harbor Communications



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