From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 18 16:08:16 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E22FA16A41F for ; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 16:08:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from robert@webtent.com) Received: from columbus.webtent.org (static-70-110-70-42.tampfl.fios.verizon.net [70.110.70.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38F2A43D45 for ; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 16:08:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from robert@webtent.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by columbus.webtent.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B122CFABE; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 11:08:15 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Ftizpatrick To: Micah In-Reply-To: <437DFA2F.6090205@ywave.com> References: <1132321525.30630.3.camel@columbus.webtent.org> <44wtj6m2kz.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <1132326705.30630.7.camel@columbus.webtent.org> <437E1478.8040501@oxygen.az> <437DFA2F.6090205@ywave.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: WebTent Networking, Inc. Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 11:08:15 -0500 Message-Id: <1132330095.30630.16.camel@columbus.webtent.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Tofik Suleymanov , Lowell Gilbert , FreeBSD Subject: Re: Override prompt when deleting a file X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 16:08:17 -0000 On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 07:58 -0800, Micah wrote: > >>>> I'm logged in to my FreeBSD 5.2.1 box as 'admin' via ssh, why would I > >>>> receive this override prompt? > >>>> > >>>> -bash-2.05b$ ls -la massage.xls > >>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 admin admin 4463104 Aug 29 17:25 massage.xls > >>>> -bash-2.05b$ rm massage.xls > >>>> override rw-r--r-- admin/admin for massage.xls? > >>>> > >>> > >>> Check the permissions on the directory? > >> -bash-2.05b$ ls -la > >> total 460441 > >> drwxr-xr-x 18 admin admin 1024 Nov 18 08:38 . > >> drwxr-xr-x 5 admin admin 512 Jan 4 2005 .. > >> > To original poster: is the immutable bit set on the file? I don't believe so...is this how you tell? -bash-2.05b$ ls -lo massage.xls -rw-r--r-- 1 admin admin - 4463104 Aug 29 17:25 massage.xls -- Robert