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Date:      Thu, 19 May 2005 02:29:04 +0200
From:      Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
To:        FreeBSD questions mailing list <FreeBSD@amadeus.demon.nl>
Cc:        freebsd <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Can't delete a file
Message-ID:  <20050519002903.GA7489@falcon.midgard.homeip.net>
In-Reply-To: <B0D3FD7B-99A3-4609-9804-F6B235ED96D6@amadeus.demon.nl>
References:  <B0D3FD7B-99A3-4609-9804-F6B235ED96D6@amadeus.demon.nl>

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On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 02:18:36AM +0200, FreeBSD questions mailing list wrote:
> Hello,
> i want to remove a jail from my system.
> i deleted the folder it was installed into but there are some files  
> that i can't delete, for instance this one:
> 
> -r-sr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    18K Mar 26 06:58 rcp*
> 
> i can't even delete it as root:
> 
> # rm -rf rcp
> rm: rcp: Operation not permitted
> 
> can anyone tell me how to get rid of it?

chflags noschg rcp
rm -rf rcp


Do a 'man chflags' for more information about the file flags.


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Erik Trulsson
ertr1013@student.uu.se



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