From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 27 14:04:47 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id OAA14384 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 27 Sep 1995 14:04:47 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA14352 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 1995 14:04:38 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id WAA20826 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 1995 22:03:12 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id WAA20999 for FreeBSD-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org; Wed, 27 Sep 1995 22:03:12 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id VAA24489 for FreeBSD-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org; Wed, 27 Sep 1995 21:40:18 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199509272040.VAA24489@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: can't delete chfn To: FreeBSD-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 21:40:18 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: FreeBSD-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "-Vince-" at Sep 27, 95 03:05:35 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 568 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As -Vince- wrote: > > root@apollo [3:03am][/usr/bin] >> dir chfn > -r-sr-xr-x 1 root bin 20480 Jul 26 07:57 chfn > root@apollo [3:04am][/usr/bin] >> rm chfn > override r-sr-xr-x root/bin schg for chfn? y > rm: chfn: Operation not permitted Your famous "dir" fails to report you the immutable flag. Better alias "dir" to "ls -lo" for user root. No idea why the chflags (above in your script, not quoted here) failed. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)