Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 20:31:41 +0100 From: Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl> To: "J. W. Ballantine" <jwb@homer.att.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: directory Operation not permitted Message-ID: <20041207193141.GN39558@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> In-Reply-To: <200412071906.iB7J6Tn03583@akiva.homer.att.com> References: <200412071906.iB7J6Tn03583@akiva.homer.att.com>
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--z0eOaCaDLjvTGF2l Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 02:06:27PM -0500, J. W. Ballantine wrote: > I'm running FreeBSD5-stable and there is a directory named > "empty" in the /var/tmp/temproot/var path, created by mergemaster, > that will not allow me , as su, to chmod or remove. Any time I try > I get Operation Not Permitted. >=20 > There doesn't seem to be anything special about it, any thoughts as to > what is going on with this beast??? It is a directory necessary for sshd. It has filesystem flags set that prev= ent it from being removed until the flag is reset, which only the superuser can= do by default (and when the system securelevel is raised, not even the superus= er can). Read up on chflags(1) (the 'schg' flag), init(8) (for securelevels and their definitions), and ls(1) (for the -o flag to see the flags). > When I rerun mergemaster and reply yes to the final should I delete the d= ir.=20 > path, it is removed. That is because mergemaster does a chflags noschg on the directory before deleting it. HTH, --Stijn --=20 If today is the first day of the rest of your life, what the hell was yesterday? --z0eOaCaDLjvTGF2l Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBtgUdY3r/tLQmfWcRAl5CAJ95wmTynY3krjm11P393/lDn77mfACfUUR9 hE4S4hsK4AqFlI2Whplo0eI= =C3NB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --z0eOaCaDLjvTGF2l--
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