From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 13 9: 0:35 2002 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 DA9FF37B401 for ; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 09:00:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02.attbi.com [204.127.202.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60DF243E75 for ; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 09:00:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pkdb1@attbi.com) Received: from attbi.com ([12.231.115.57]) by sccrmhc02.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20021013160033.IUGI24595.sccrmhc02.attbi.com@attbi.com> for ; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 16:00:33 +0000 Message-ID: <3DA99893.3000304@attbi.com> Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 09:00:19 -0700 From: paul User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020927 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Slightly OT: How to remove an odd file... References: <005801c272d0$fab6c040$1500a8c0@dogbert> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brian McCann wrote: > No go...here's the listing for the file...here's what happens... > > -rwsr-sr-x 1 root root 64924 Sep 2 15:24 > > rm " " > rm: remove write-protected file ` '? y > rm: cannot unlink ` ': Operation not permitted > > Any other ideas? > I assume you did this as root/sudo? Strange that it's setuid . . . . -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ With a rubber duck, one's never alone. -- "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message