Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 18:06:23 +0000 From: Tofik Suleymanov <tofik@oxygen.az> To: Micah <micahjon@ywave.com> Cc: robert@webtent.com, Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>, FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Override prompt when deleting a file Message-ID: <437E181F.5090707@oxygen.az> 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>
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Micah wrote: > Tofik Suleymanov wrote: > >> Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: >> >>> On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 09:51 -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Robert Ftizpatrick <robert@webtent.com> writes: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> 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? >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Yes, I did... >>> >>> -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 .. >>> >>> -- >>> Robert >>> >> add alias ls 'ls -f' to shell startup script > > from man ls: > -f Output is not sorted. > > How does sorting the output of ls affect the ability to remove the file? > > To original poster: is the immutable bit set on the file? > > HTH > Micah > sorry, i meant alias rm 'rm -f'
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