Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 04:30:34 +0000 (GMT) From: "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de> To: Roger Merritt <mcrogerm@stjohn.ac.th> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Unable to delete file Message-ID: <20011002042348.G39535-100000@big> In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20011002103107.007ae580@stjohn.stjohn.ac.th>
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On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Roger Merritt wrote: > I have a strange problem. I have a small LAN using Samba. I have a public > share on my FreeBSD server, at /home/public, that I use for documents that > must be made available to everybody. A couple of days ago I posted an > Excell worksheet for the teachers to use in submitting their end-of-term > grades. Today I tried to modify it and got the message "being modified by > Roger Merritt: would you like to open as Read Only?" The problem is I'm not > modifying it. So I tried to delete it; no soap. I have only seen this happening, when you try to delete a file, while it is still opened by Excel. Did you try to remove it, while somebody was working on it (perhaps even yo yourself)? Uli. > > So I went to the console, logged on and su'ed and tried to delete it. No > dice. So I tried 'ls -lo', but no flags are set. Then I tried 'fstat -f > /home/public', no files open from that directory. Tried again, 'cd > /home/public; rm -f GradeSht.xls', and again I get "rm: GradeSht.xls: > Permission denied". Permission denied!!! I am ROOT -- resistance is futile! > Except it's not. I'm stymied. Oh, yeah, thinking my securelevel might have > gotten changed I tried 'syscontrol kern.securelevel' and got -1, the > default value, which it should be. > > What can I try next? I've tried searching the archives and haven't found > anything yet. > -- > Roger > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > ************************************ * P. U. Kruppa - Wuppertal * * Germany * * www.pukruppa.de www.2000d.de * ************************************ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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