Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 11:52:29 -0600 (CST) From: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com> To: chrismar@console.org (Chris Martino) Cc: marko@uk.radan.com, robert@chalmers.com.au, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unremovable file? Message-ID: <199901261752.LAA00606@horton.iaces.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901261218100.10402-100000@crazy.weirdo.net> from Chris Martino at "Jan 26, 99 12:18:31 pm"
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In a previous message, Chris Martino said: > I am root... > stupid:/var/log/ % id > uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root),1(bin),2(daemon),3(sys),4(adm),6(disk),10(wheel) > > C > -- > This is my sig. Fear it! > > On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Mark Ovens wrote: > > > Chris Martino wrote: > > > > > > I tried that before posting to the list, here is it's output: > > > > > > stupid:/var/log/ % chmod 666 authlog.1.gz > > ^^^ > > You don't appear to be root. Try doning this as root. > > > > > > > chmod: authlog.1.gz: Operation not permitted > > > stupid:/var/log/ % rm -i authlog.1.gz > > > rm: remove `authlog.1.gz'? y > > > rm: authlog.1.gz: Operation not permitted do an ls -lo and see if any flags are set. Get rid of them with chflags. Then you can remove -- Common sense is the most evenly distributed quantity in the world. Everyone thinks he has enough. -Descartes, 1637 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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