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Date:      Thu, 19 May 2005 09:57:51 +0100
From:      Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com>
To:        Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
Cc:        freebsd <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Can't delete a file
Message-ID:  <428C550F.3080306@dial.pipex.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050519002903.GA7489@falcon.midgard.homeip.net>
References:  <B0D3FD7B-99A3-4609-9804-F6B235ED96D6@amadeus.demon.nl> <20050519002903.GA7489@falcon.midgard.homeip.net>

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Erik Trulsson wrote:

>On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 02:18:36AM +0200, FreeBSD questions mailing list wrote:
>  
>
>>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.
>  
>
And look at the -o option to ls.

--Alex



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